The Umu Ojobo Nwonu family in Imufu Enugu- Ezike,
Igboeze North Local Government Area of Enugu State, began their new year with
the mourning of the death of wife and six children of Dominic Onu Ojobo in a
fire disaster last Wednesday.
It was said that the family of eight had gone to
sleep at about 10 pm on the fateful night, hoping to wake up early the
following morning and travel to their village for the New Year celebrations but
later perished in a midnight fire which gutted their house at Mararaba, near
Abuja.
The remains of the seven members of the family,
including those of the wife, Ifeoma and the first daughter, Mesoma, were buried
in three separate graves amid wailings and sobbing by relatives and other
sympathisers on the New Year eve at their family land in Imufu.
Ifeoma was said to be carrying her last child who
was crying at the time they were retiring to bed on her chest when death came
calling.
Dominic, head of the family was however, still lying
unconscious at an undisclosed hospital in Abuja at the time of filing this
report.
A member of the Umu Ojobo Nwonu family, Damian
Ojobo, who confirmed the story, described the death of almost the entire
members of the family as not only “unprecedented but calamitous.”
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