A young lady simply identified as Chizoba has been electrocuted to death.
Chizoba was a cake baker in Enugu, capital of Enugu State before her tragic death.
According to her friends and neighbours, the about 27-year-old lady died of electrocution at the frontage of the apartment where she was staying.
It was gathered that the incident happened penultimate Sunday at the house she was living at number 91, Ogui road by Asata Chemist, Enugu State.
Sources explained that the deceased, a cake baker, returned from a Church programme on Sunday evening and brought out clothes from her one room apartment to wash.
Unknown to her, the iron bar that her landlord, simply identified as Da Don, had barricaded her apartment with, had touched naked electric wire that the landlord connected to a chalet he was allegedly building within the premises.
When she started washing her clothes, her body reportedly touched the iron bar and she was electrocuted.
It was gathered that her neighbours had rushed her to a private hospital but doctors on duty pronounced her dead.
Meanwhile, her relatives and friends have blamed the landlord for her death, accusing him of placing a naked wire on her roof.
Speaking for the deceased’s family, Chizoba’s friend, Chinyere Amangwu, explained that the female tenant had complained of the alleged illegal and dangerous connection that passed through her roof.
“Her landlord, one Dan Don, had started the construction of a chalet in the middle of the house. He made an illegal wire connection and used an iron bar to cage Chizoba’s room.
She found it difficult to even access her room each time she returned from work and she had complained about this to the landlord but he told her to pack out.
“Chizoba had complained to her landlord severally that the electricity connection over her roof was making her uncomfortable but the landlord rebuffed her complaints. She had wanted to wash her clothes before her body touched the barb wire that the landlord used to fence the chalet he was building in the middle of the premises.
“She was rushed to a public hospital and she was rejected there. We later took her to Paulsonic hospital, Enugu but doctors said she had given up the ghost. If the landlord had fixed the wire, she wouldn’t have been electrocuted.
“We demand justice and that should start with the arrest of the Da Don landlord. He should be made a scapegoat for some landlords in this Enugu who treat their tenants like slaves,” Amangwu said.