A source had said over twenty-person have died after eating some fried meat served at a bar by one suspected Yahoo boy.
It was gathered that the incident happened on Saturday, March 20, 2021, at a bar named Titi’s Concept in Alagbole-Akute, Ogun State.
A report that was seen by goldennationblog.com, reveals that the deceased persons ate noodles at a birthday party on Saturday, March 20 and after they got home at midnight, they started vomiting blood before giving up the ghost.
Meanwhile, some persons alleged that the food served was pepper soup which might have likely been poisoned.
However, a Twitter user, @UdehEmm22446501, who claims he stays in the area where the incident occurred said, “Last week, the candlelight procession for one of the dead victims was done in my area…the supposed birthday was done in a hotel, I still believe the hotel is functioning now. Someone was contacted to cook the food as I heard the person is on the run.”
In another vein, @Titi_Wunmi tweeted, “Happened around my area. Let’s just be careful) of how we eat at parties and please stop taking food home from parties just because it is free. It is risky. Someone lost 3 kids from this. It is very sad. I am so sure more than 50 people died because some must have come from faraway and must have died on getting home. Some said the celebrant left the country that same night, so it’s not (a case of) food poisoning.”
A source discloses that his apprentice was at the bar on the date when the incident happened, according to the apprentice, the yahoo boy drove to the bar on Thursday and ordered drinks for everyone which he repeated on Friday which is the following day.
According to the source apprentice, on Saturday, March 25, 2021, a suspected Yahoo boy cum ritualist drove into a bar, paid for bottles of beer while he announced its birthday.
The yahoo boy then went into his car where he got a cooler of fried meat and asked everyone to have a bite while sipping their drinks.
The source said it was the point of sharing the fried meat that his apprentice noticed his phone was missing, he said, the apprentice notice his phone was missing at the moment when he wanted to capture the scene, make a video or take pictures and post but he couldn’t find his phone, so he was more concerned about getting his phone than being involved in the sharing of the meat.
Although, the bar attendants already gave him a bottle of beer paid for by the yahoo boy and he drank from it before he left to look for his phone.
The source also claimed that nothing happened to his apprentice while stating that, his apprentice said, the cause of the death might be the meat because he brought it out from the booth of his car, no one knows where he got it from, he added.
The source also said 25 persons have been confirmed dead as from the people who ate from the meat as against the figure given on social media as 50.
The source further explained how the yahoo boy has come to the bar two days before the incident, stating that, a bar is a regular place where they drink, smoke as anyone can declare that he will foot others bills.
She said, “The story is very true, I think it is a ritual, not food poisoning.”
She continues that the yahoo boy has been coming to the bar; he said, a place is a place where they smoke, drink, anyone can declare that he will foot the bills, so it was not new when the guy came the first day to say he would pay for all the drinks, Guys there were happy; the second day, the same thing and the third day, he said, it was his birthday that he brought some fried meat in his car so he started distributing to them, telling them to use to step down (take it along with) the chilled beer he bought for them. Adding that, they were so happy and started eating.
She said, “From what I heard, at midnight, they would wake up and say, we ate last at City Concept, start vomiting blood, and die. Like 25 of them are dead now. 10 at Keredolu, another 10 at Jolasco close to Lambe, and another 5 at Alagbole. I can’t tell if the figure is up to 50 because some people who were not accustomed to going to the bar might have been there on that day to take a piece and return to their houses. None of them died at the bar, no one lodged in there, it is not a hotel.
She also said, “The Yahoo boy did not die; he simply ran away. He has been declared wanted. His car is even parked at Ajuwon there, some people wanted to burn his car but they were advised against doing such so that the culprit would be traced.”
She further said, “The police are aware of the incident, they even wanted to go and lock up the hotel but when the owner heard of it, she called them and asked why because she did not produce the beer in her hotel and the beer was opened for each person at their request. It was not like it was opened behind them and that was not the first nor second time they had come to the bar to drink.”
According to another source which said that a 19-year-old boy who was at the scene of the incident also vomited blood before he died.
The source claimed that the boy was the son of her mother’s friend and he has now been buried.
The source in her words said, “He was at the bar; he ate and drank beer too. He vomited blood and died; he has now been buried. His mother and my mother are friends.”
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