One family member died while six other battle for lives at a private hospital in Nsukka, following heavy food poison.
Mr.
Clement Alumona, 63, and seven other members of the same family from
Uvuru, Uzo Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State were said to have
eaten a meal prepared from cassava flour and consequently took ill. Food
poison lead to the death of one the Alumona’s, Bridget, aged four.
According
to sources close to the family, the Clements’s wife, Veronica had
bought dried cassava tubers which were milled into flour which they used
in preparing the ‘alibo’ meal which is usually eaten with soup.
The
other members of the family now, at the intensive care unit of the
Bishop Shanahan Hospital, Nsukka. They include children: Evelyn 12;
Christiana, 8; Frederick 6; and Francis who is one and a half years.
Hospital
sources said that the surviving family members were taken to hospital
on the night of Monday, adding that they were transfused with two pints
of blood each. The victims were reportedly still vomiting and constant
stooling of blood.
Dr.
Oji Chimaroke who spoke on the issue at the hospital however, said that
six members of the family have regained consciousness except Veronica,
the mother of the house. 
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