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<\/p>\nAccording to the News Agency of Nigeria, Imoh was discovered by neighbours early on Monday morning lying dead in front of her shop located at 12, Shosanya Street, Ijegun road in Ikotun.<\/p>\n
Imoh\u2019s neighbour, Mrs Mercy Alomona said she woke up to see the lifeless body of the woman clinging to the metal gates of her shop at around 6:30 a.m.<\/p>\n
Alomona said that the neighbours later discovered that Imoh\u2019s death was due to a naked wire that supplied electricity from the electric pole that linked the building.<\/p>\n
\u201cMama Chikodi as Imoh was fondly addressed, was trying to open the iron gate of her shop without noticing the contact and got electrocuted,\u2019\u2019 Alomona explained.<\/p>\n
Another resident, Mr Sodiq Bello, said there was improper electrical wiring to the building where the woman died.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have searched for the cause of the death, and we noticed that a naked wire was resting on the metallic sides of the roof, which had transmitted to other metallic objects in the shop.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe building has an electrical defect.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was trying to come out from the entrance of the shop when the incident happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cMama Chikodi works and sleeps in the shop. She assists her younger sister in cooking and selling food early morning,\u2019\u2019 Bello said.<\/p>\n
In a telephone interview, the District Police Officer, Isheri\/Osun Police Station, SP Rafiu Akinlade, said the police was notified of the incident.<\/p>\n
Akinlade said: \u201cwe have been informed and I have called Ikeja Electric about the development, and they have switched off the electricity in the area; this is to allow us evacuate Imoh\u2019s body.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have also directed my officers to go to the scene of the event from where the body was evacuated.\u201d<\/p>\n
Akinlade said the Cross River State-born Imoh\u2019s body had been taken to Isolo General Hospital mortuary.<\/p>\n
He said that the incident happened due to lack of insulator protector in the building, and was worsened by the rain.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the building had an insulator, the insulator would have absorbed and protected the residents from any danger<\/p>\n
\u201cResidents need to be careful and be vigilant, especially during and after rainfall.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen it rains, it is advisable to avoid touching iron or metal object,\u2019\u2019 the DPO said\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A food seller, Mrs Florence Imoh, 58, was electrocuted at her shop at Ikotun, a Lagos suburb in Igando\/Ikotun Local Council Development Area, early on Monday morning. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Imoh was discovered by neighbours early on Monday morning lying dead in front of her shop located at 12, Shosanya Street, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[12013,250],"class_list":["post-125262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-electrocuted","tag-lagos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}