Indigenes of Elele community in Ikwerre Local Government Area, of Rivers State, are now mourning the death of a 62 year- old woman identified as Mrs. Florence Onuobodo, who lost her life, in a stamped that occurred during the sharing of the state government’s Covid-19 palliative in the area.
The Rivers State Government had delivered food palliatives to Elele Kingdom in the ongoing distribution of Covid-19 palliatives by the government, but during the sharing of the palliatives, the stamped occurred claiming the life of Madam Florence, leaving about four other women with various degrees of injuries.
Speaking on the sad incident, Eze Okechukwu Okah, blamed the development on the committee in the community and one Chief Mike Elechi, stating that the stamped would have been avoided if both had managed the process properly.
Okah said: “My palliative came before the state government’s own many benefitted and nobody died. This stamped happened because one man asked the committee to move the whole item to his compound.
“We know our people are hungry, but the right thing needs to be done. They selected their loyalists to come and get the items, but other people who knew their plans got there as early as 5:00am.
“When they started their selection others started to struggle to enter the compound, their boys started flogging and pushing them backwards, in that process the stamped happened.”
