The Delta State Government has imposed a dust to dawn curfew on Ute-Okpu community in Ika North East local government area to forestall the breakdown of law and order over allegations of sudden deaths.
The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Mordi Ononye,had on Nov 6th said the results of the tests carried out following the mysterious death in Ute Okpu community came back positive for Yellow Fever .
The youths in the community have however rejected all entreaties, explanations and advocacies by health caregivers sent to Community to explain that the cause of death is scientific not as result of offending the gods or evils spirits in order to calm them down
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It was learnt that the curfew imposed on Monday, November 23 was to forestall further destruction of public and private property by angry youths who claimed that the sudden deaths were due to certain offences committed against the gods.
They allegedly claimed that failure of the monarch and other leaders of the community to appease the gods were responsible for the deaths.
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Some of the youths have consequently embarked on wanton and malicious destruction of property belonging to government institutions and the royal palace over the superstitious belief that the sudden deaths in their community are not as a result of yellow fever.
