From Ameachi Prosper (The New Diplomat’s Delta Correspondent)
Grief and palpable fear have enveloped the Amukpe community in Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State following the mysterious death of two lovers, Matilda and Ufuoma Alome.
The two were found dead inside their apartment by curious neighbours who knocked on their door. After getting no response from them, he then peeped through the window only to find both of them dead.
Sources said one of the bodies was found on the floor while the other was on the bed. According to a neighbour, the couple came home late the previous night.
“but when neighbours woke up that morning and noticed his vehicle was there but no sign of the couple, we became worried. We found the window was open but the door was locked from inside, that was when we looked through the windows and saw the dead bodies,” a source said.
But another source said that their death must have been as a result of generator fumes saying, “their generator was put on yesterday when they came back and we are suspecting it must have been the cause of their death.”
Reports say Ufuoma and Mathilda had just return to the country last year from an undisclosed overseas country and had moved into the vicinity last December.
Their bodies have been deposited in an undisclosed morgue.
When contacted, the Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, Onome Onowakpoyeya, simply said, “When the police visited the scene of incident, they prevented us from going in, so the case was not officially reported.”
