I Fell and Lost Consciousness - Man Who Survived Restaurant Food Poison Which Killed Others in Cross River (Photos)

Many customers were said to have died on Saturday after an eatery operator in Ogoja, Cross River State, allegedly poured herbicide in a soup at a restaurant in Oboso community in Ogoja.
Family members of the victims in the hospital
Residents of some communities in Ogoja local government area of Cross River state are yet to recover from the shock of the food poisoning which killed 2 persons and landed 50 in hospitals.
Many had deserted their homes when TheCable visited the affected communities during the weekend. Those remaining were reluctant to speak about the unfortunate incident, but they gathered in circles to discuss it.
A witness told TheCable that trouble started after some residents patronised a popular restaurant at Obosun junction in Mbube east, Ogoja.
The witness said after eating there on Friday morning, some of the residents started vomiting and also showed various signs of health disorders.
Obosun junction is a central spot where residents of  Nkum, Ojirim, Ogbese, Egbe Mbube and Aragba usually meet, so some members of these communities also ate at the restaurant.

“I watched as one man had just arrived at his home and as he was about entering his house, he fell down and started vomiting blood,” one of the locals named Esther, said.
“It continued with other people too. So there was chaos everywhere with people running up and down and crying.

“We were all confused because something like this has never happened before; we didn’t know what to do seeing that the number of people that were vomiting was increasing. At some point they were too many, all we could do was to cry before some of the villagers intervened and took them to the hospital.”

A MAN NOTICED CHANGES IN HIS SYSTEM AFTER EATING THE FOOD
Robert Abuah, a motorcyclist, recalled how he started noticing some changes in his body not long after he had left the restaurant.
“I carried my passenger to the junction and went there to eat just like I use to do every other day. So I finished eating and left. After some time, I became very weak such that I didn’t even know myself at that point. So, I managed to call my brother who took me to Adibe Hospital in Bekwara LGA for treatment,” he said.

“Then my eyes were turning seriously, I couldn’t even stand firm on the ground unlike now that I can even walk a bit.”

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