A man identified as Nwachukwu Ikechukwu has reportedly died after inhaling generator fumes at his residence in the Shogoye area of Owode-Egba in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government area of Ogun State.
News About Nigeria reports that Ikechukwu’s tragic demise was confirmed by the Ogun State Police Command in a statement released on Saturday.
According to the spokesperson for the state police command, SP Omolola Odutola, Ikechukwu, and his wife, Oyin Falodun, turned on the generator in their sitting room around 10 pm on Thursday.
Although Ikechukwu lost his life, his wife was taken to the hospital, where she later regained consciousness and recounted what had occurred.
The police quoted the wife to say, “That when it was 2200hrs of 19/09/2024 she asked her husband whether she could put off the generating engine they were using to power their fans in their bedroom but her husband told her not to do so until when the two of them slept off. That the generator must have wreaked the havoc that befell them before it put itself off when the fuel inside it finished.”
She disclosed further that she later found out that both of them had fallen off their bed and that her late husband struggled to get out of bed, after which he fell.
While Falodun is said to be recuperating at Ore Ofe Hospital, Owode-Egba, the corpse of Ikechukwu has been deposited at the General Hospital, Owode-Egba, for autopsy.
The police were alerted by one of their neighbours, Oladayo Olasubomi, who had come to drop the N1000 daily contribution for the wife.
Olasubomi had found the couple lying down unconscious.
