Four Die In Ogun After Drinking Ogogoro

Posted on August 17, 2016 by Staff Reporter

Four people have died in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, after drinking local liquor known as ogogoro ..

Three of the victims died instantly while the other one died later.

The vendor of the liquor which is suspected to bear high concentration of ethanol, Mr. Salako Taloju, has been arrested by the police.

He is a gateman who operates a kiosk opposite the Ibara – Abeokuta home of a prominent Egba politician.

The police simply gave the names of three of the deceased as Baba Imeko, Baba Onwenue and Easy.

The trio, he added, were living in the neighbourhood.

Taloju himself was heavily drunk when the police came for him yesterday. He attempted to resist arrest, pleading that he was innocent, but the Police ignored his plea and whisked him away in their vehicle.

Taloju said: “we have been drinking together for a long time. I do not know why they have to accuse me now of killing them, I have even taken out of the liquor and nothing happened.”

Four die in Ogun after drinking ogogoro

Man Dies After Drinking 20 Sachets Of Gin In N500 Bet

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Staff Reporter

A middle-aged man, identified as Chucks from Imo State, has died after consuming 20 sachets of gin in a N500 bet with a woman.
The deceased, said to be a barber, is married with a child and lived along Ngwa Road area of Aba, Abia State.

An eyewitness said the deceased had on the fateful day, gone to a nearby local shop situated within the area to take a sachet of his usual brand of gin and boosted to the shop owner that he could finish
20 sachets of the drink.

This was said to have led to an argument between the deceased and the shop owner and other customers in the shop that morning.
The argument, it was learned, reached a stage where the deceased deposited N500 and the shop owner also placed her own N500 in a bet.
The deceased was then provided with the sachet drinks for consumption.

It was gathered that he successfully consumed the 20 sachets of dry gin and went away with the bet money.
The deceased was said to have left his barbing salon earlier that day to his house when he started feeling some pains in his stomach and asked his wife to put on their sitting room ceiling fan and sat directly beneath it.
When his condition got worse, his wife asked him what the problem was.
A source said the deceased told his wife he was okay, but just needed rest.

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Imo Assembly Bans Sale Of Locally Brewed Gin

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Staff Reporter

The Imo State House of Assembly has adopted two motions urging ministries, departments and agencies to improve the sanitation of the state and banning the sale of locally brewed gin.

Presenting the motion on sanitation on Wednesday, Mr Chukwuemeka Lloyd (APC-Owerri-North) stressed the need for the offices charged with environmental sanitation and food hygiene to step up their activities to stop the spread of diseases.

The motion also urged public health officers to inspect market places, abattoirs and the means of conveying animals slaughtered in the market to their retail outlets.

The motion also called for sanitation trucks to be covered with tarpaulins to prevent littering the roads with garbage.

Similarly, the assembly adopted another motion banning the production, sale, distribution and consumption of locally brewed gin in the state.

Presenting the motion, Mr Innocent Egwim (APC-Ideato North) noted that the consumption of locally brewed gin posed a danger to the lives of its consumers.

He prayed that the state health ministry be compelled to trace the producers for possible prosecution while the brewing, sale, distribution and consumption of the product without legal approval be banned.

The motion also called on the Imo Orientation Agency to educate the residents on the dangers of the product.

Following the unanimous adoption of the motions by the lawmakers, the Speaker of the assembly, Mr Iheanacho Ihim (APC-Okigwe) ruled in favour of them.

Ogogoro Producers Kick Against Nationwide Ban

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Staff Reporter

Producers of Ogogoro under the umbrella of Raw Gin Producers Association of Nigeria, RGPAN, has urged the federal government not to ban the local gin popularly called Ogogoro based on recent casualty recorded from its consumption in some states of the country.

The Chairman of the association, Mr. Aritson Kroboakpo said in Lagos yesterday that native gin, whose production and consumption in Nigeria pre-dates independence and is not injurious to health , unless when adulterated.

Faking of products, the Association also noted, is not only peculiar to local gin, even as the group promised to work with government to ensure that quacks in the local gin production are eliminated.

The Association is reacting to the call for the ban of ogogoro by the government following the unfortunate incident that happened in Ondo State, where it was reported that some okada-riders collapsed after drinking ogogoro in a popular relaxation spot, and the most recent incident that occurred in Rivers State.

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FG Bans Ogogoro Nationwide

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Staff Reporter

The Federal Government has announced the total ban on the consumption of the popular local gin, known as Ogogoro, Akpeteshi, Kaikai and Agbakara nationwide.

This is following deaths of 38 people in Rivers State and a similar recent incident in Ode-Irele, Ondo state due to the consumption of locally made gin.

The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Paul Orhii, made the announcement at the media briefing in Abuja, yesterday.

He, however, warned the general public against the consumption of the gin which has turned out to be deadly due to its toxic contents.

“The public should desist from the consumption of unregistered locally made spirits (Ogogoro) and other unregistered bitters. The government will confiscate all illegally brewed alcoholic beverages across the country, “he reiterated.

I Became Blind After Drinking Ogogoro- Ode-Irele Survivor

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Staff Reporter

One of the survivors of the Ode-Irele methanol poisoning, Mr. Olorunwa Jero, yesterday, recounted his ordeal in the throes of death. Jero, a father of six, who is a vulcaniser, narrated: “By the time I was brought here, I had gone blind. I could not identify my wife, I could not identify anything. I did not even know when I arrived here. “But I thank God and the management and staff of University College Hospital, UCH, for bailing me out. I can see all of you here clearly. I can even identify the clothes each one of you is putting on.”

The victim commended the teaching hospital for its timely medical intervention which he said saved his life. Meantime, UCH management, yesterday, confirmed that five victims of Ode-Irele methanol poisoning were responding to treatment. The victims were said to have taken the methanol while consuming a local gin.

Confirming that the toxin was detected in the blood and urine of the victims, Professor Temitope Alonge, Chief Medical Director, UCH, said the five victims were transferred to the teaching hospital on April 18 adding that they had regained their lost sight as a result of taking the chemical.

Alonge, who said this while speaking with newsmen in Ibadan, warned people to be wary of taking local gin so as to avoid s similar unpleasant experience.

According to the CMD, series of tests were carried out on the victims and the samples of the three drinks they took.

The medical practitioner said: “On April 18, the Consultant Pathologist with the Ondo State Ministry of Health, Dr. Osasan, called to seek the assistance of the University College Hospital, Ibadan, in the management of five patients who survived the Ode-Irele neuro-toxicity saga who were completely blind.

‘’We agreed to take over the management of the patients but requested for the samples of the local gin that were incriminated along the fresh blood and urine samples of the patients.

‘’I contacted the consultant neurologist on call, Dr. Steeve Oluwole for a comprehensive evaluation of the patients because of the clinical presentation of the patients that had died and the ones that survived since they all pointed to neurotoxicity.

‘’In addition, the clinical pharmacologists led by Professor Catherine Falade, the laboratory scientists and specialists advisers to the hospital, Professor Segun Ademowo, were all contacted for the biochemical analyses of the blood of these patients as well as the urine in addition to the three samples of local gin that was reportedly consumed by the patients.

He added that all the relevant health personnel worked for almost two weeks before they detected the likely cause of the neurotoxicity exemplified by sudden blindness and correlated their findings with the toxicants in the blood, urine and the local gin samples.