No more buying, selling and consuming alchohol in Rivers State.

Not less than 22people died in Woji Port-harcourt Rivers after consuming dog meat.
The Rivers state government has ordered the ban of the consumption of local gin popularly called ogogoro.


If we recall, it was disclosed that not less than five persons at Woji, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, died after eating dog meat served at a popular joint

According to information gathered, the 22 persons died after consuming dog meat delicacy and local gin popularly called ‘Kai-Kai’ or Ogogoro which allegedly contained poisonous ethanol.

The Director of the Department of Disease Control in the state, Dr. Roland Obed Whyte said the ban became necessary to curtail more people from consuming the toxic substance.

Dr, Whyte further expressed concern over the difficulty in getting samples of the particular gin through clinical analysis because the irate youths of Woji had set ablaze the shop of Friday Dickson, aka Etiaba where the suspected toxic gin was bought and consumed erasing the remaining samples of the gin.
And one if the victims who is still alive said he has no money to treat him self while

Some of the dead people has been buried without autopsy.

Dickson is presently in the custody of the Police