A strange sickness is said to be ravaging Oye Obi in the Obi Local Government Area of Benue State. Already, it has killed four people in quick succession.
According to ‘Save our Souls’ letter by a group called, Igede National Youths Council, the strange sickness had within the past two weeks killed four people whose names were given asHappiness Ogbu, Onah Ogbedu, Andy Edu and Wisdom Agwo.
“They developed the same symptoms of headache, internal heat, diarrhoea, vomiting, stomach ache, weakness of the body and swollen stomach and died alike. “Our investigation reveals that about six more persons as at today, Wednesday, 29 January, 2020 are already down developing the same symptoms, some of them have already been moved to the General Hospital, Oju.
“We have declared state of emergency on those kind of strange diseases in the state, put surveillance tracking down all the diseases and see how we can treat them.
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