Abia State Police Command yesterday confirmed the death of an environmental health officer in Aba South Local Government and his wife, after allegedly inhaling generator fumes.
Spokesman Nta Ogbonnaya told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Aba that the couple died in Bende, their local government, where they had gone to celebrate the Yuletide.
He said investigations showed that the deceased, Mr. Prince McAnthony and his wife, Oluchi, were allegedly choked to death by the fumes of a generator, which they kept close to their apartment.
Ogbonnaya said the health officer and his wife, who also worked in the Health department of the Aba South Council, inhaled the generator fumes, leading to their death.
A family source, however, told NAN that there was more to the death of the couple than the police report.
The source said the deceased had quarrelled over the man’s amorous relationship with a woman, who worked in the same department with the couple.
He said the constant quarrels made the man to abandon their rented apartment in Aba to stay in their village house in Bende, from where he went to office in Aba before the holiday.
The source said the woman over who the couple quarrelled still visited him in his country home in Bende.
He said on December 10, the health officer invited his wife to the village to collect their children’s school fees.
“That was the last anyone heard of them until three days later when their bodies were discovered in their village home,’’ the source added.
He said the bodies were found bloated.
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