The Abia State Police Command on Thursday confirmed the death of an
environmental health officer in Aba South Local Government Area and his wife
after inhaling
generator fumes.
The Public Relations Officer of the command, Mr Nta Ogbonnaya, told the
News Agency of Nigeria in Aba that the couple died in Bende, their local
government area of origin where they had gone to observe the yuletide holidays.
Ogbonnaya said that police investigations revealed that the duo, Mr
Prince McAnthony, and his wife, Oluchi, were choked to death from the fume of a
generator which they left close to their apartment.
The spokesman said the environmental health officer and his wife, who
also worked in the same health department of Aba South, inhaled the fume from
the generator leading to their death.
However, reports from a close family source told NAN that there was more
to the death of the couple than the police report.
According to the source, the deceased couple had been quarreling over the
man’s amorous relationship with a strange woman who also works in the same
department with the couple.
The source said the constant quarrels had led the man to abandon their
rented apartment in Aba to stay in their village house in Bende, from where he
went to work in Aba prior to the holiday.
He said the woman over whom the couple quarreled still visited him in his
country home in Bende.
He further narrated that on Dec. 10, the environmental health officer
invited his wife to the village to collect school fees for their four children.
“That was the last anyone heard of them until three days later when their
corpses were discovered in their village home,’’ the source further said.
He said the corpses were found already bloated.
NAN.
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