Kogi Commissioner Counters Lawmaker On Claim ‘Strange Disease’ Killed 50 People
The Kogi State Government has refuted reports that a strange disease had killed at least 50 people at Etteh community in Olamaboro Local Government Area of the state.
This came after the member representing Olamaboro constituency in the state’s House of Assembly, Anthony Ujah, informed the assembly that the ‘strange disease’ had killed 50 persons in the LGA.
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“The reports reaching my constituency office from the community leaders confirmed that over 50 people between the age of 25 and 40 years have died since September,” Ujah had said during a plenary sitting of the house on Tuesday.
The lawmaker identified symptoms of the disease to include headache, red eyes, loss of appetite, inability to urinate or defecate and convulsion. The house subsequently called on state and federal ministries of health to investigate the matter.
The state’s Commissioner for Information, Kingsley Fanwo, did not pick his calls when THE WHISLER reached out to him for comments.
Fanwo, however, tweeted hours later on the matter, refuting reports of the strange deaths.
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He claimed that reports of the deaths were recorded in a neighboring Enugu State community that shares boundary with Olamaboro.
Fanwo tweeted, “Strange Disease: No death recorded in Kogi; all casualties in Enugu.”
