A Nigerian man identified as Chiemela recently had an Interview on BBC Pidgin and he spoke about how his brother passed away after taking Tiger Nuts.
“In his Words”
“I never ever imagined that I will lose my brother, when I woke up today, I just burst into tears. I was the only one who was with him when life left his body and he was laying on the ground lifeless. The event that led to my brother’s death happened on Monday at his working place. He bought one Tiger Nut from one of their intern that sell provisions, so he bought it that Monday and took it and everything was okay”.
“But on Tuesday, he went and bought 4 Tiger Nuts, that was when the problem started, that particular Tuesday, he started purging, he was purging and vomiting at the same time for more than six hours and then from there he collapsed and died. That was what killed him, around 10pm, his friend called me on the phone and asked if I’m Caleb’s brother and I
said yes that I’m his elder brother. He then asked me to start coming to LSDPC immediately, I asked him what the problem is and he told me that my brother is dead, that was how I heard about my brother’s demise”.
“It’s hard to know that he’s dead, It was how the Tiger Nuts was prepared that made him to contact Cholera and that was what killed him finally. Everybody knows that my brother was very hardworking, he doesn’t joke with his work. People should take clean water very seriously because it’s very important. It’s really sad that it’s the same thing he stood for that took his life at the end”, Chiemela said.
BBC Pidgin shared the video on their official instagram page today being Thursday the 4th day of July, 2024 and it stirred massive reactions from the general public.