Five people, including a father, mother and three children have lost their lives after eating cassava flour fondly called Amala prepared at their family house in Usugnwe-Okaito, Okehi local government area, Kogi State.
According to Ebira4Real, the three children died immediately after eating the Amala on Friday, shortly after, their mother died on Saturday, and the next day, Sunday, the Father also died.
The family hail from Omavi, Ohupe ward in Okehi local government area but are residing in Usugnwe-Okaito, Okehi local government area where they built their house.
Kogi central social media users have decried the rise in the recent occurence of such heart breaking and wicked incident as it could be recalled that such incident happened some years back in Okene Eba wiping a whole family and just recently in Ogaminana, another incident happened which were all traced to food poisoning.
As at the time of filing this report, no first hand information from the family as all informations gathered were from sources around the neighbourhood. No contact with the local government authorities yet.