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Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by Skyonebaba: 8:11pm On Jul 22, 2021
This pictures are heart breaking , this girl is gonna be tormented forever by this
Who told those crazy mother fuckers it was the leaf that killed the boy ?
And even if it was the leaf did she do it intentionally ?
This girl might just be trying to help the young lad cure his sickness




Africa!!!!!

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Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by GeneralPula: 8:13pm On Jul 22, 2021
Gegemu leaf on a 6year old can truly kill..
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by harmony75: 8:17pm On Jul 22, 2021
So young but she's already practicing witchcraft so sad this little boy died! They should have shown the leave for us to know it's danger!
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by Elock1: 8:17pm On Jul 22, 2021
MrBanner:


On the contrary, unlike you, I wouldn't judge without hearing the full story and what we read here obviously does not contain the teenager's side of the story.
forget grammar.. Are humans known for eating leaves? I'm not justifying her punishment but a 16 year old should naturally know humans don't eat leaves.. Except someone sent her to do it.. Then she should point out the person... The is no justifying this... 16 year olds are not dumb... We all try to be prove correctness
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by Nobody: 8:21pm On Jul 22, 2021
Dalil8:
Serves her right and i don't care to know if she did it intentionally or not.

RIP to the kid.

You obviously lack sense undecided
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by Elock1: 8:21pm On Jul 22, 2021
stayclearofme:

And if it is so is that how she is supposed to be treated? I want to believe that you are educated. Smh! Na people like you go give dead body water for person to drink.
oga don't jump around quoting without reading.. Was there a time I said she deserved to be treated so? I was only trying to correct someone who was trying to justify what she did.. You see you are the uneducated one.. Try to understand what you read next time.
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by Elock1: 8:23pm On Jul 22, 2021
Judolisco:
no be random leaf... D leaf dey medicinal.. It can also be abused... Na from small my friends Don tell me no go near dat plant oh
who send am... Una dy try Justify things, who send am? If person send am make she point the person... Chineka.

You guy always try to prove a point out of nothing...
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by Proffdada: 8:24pm On Jul 22, 2021
josh123:
It might not be intentional, how the girl want take know say the leaf dey poisonous??
she for chop am 1st
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by Judolisco(m): 8:27pm On Jul 22, 2021
Elock1:
who send am... Una dy try Justify things, who send am? If person send am make she point the person... Chineka.

You guy always try to prove a point out of nothing...
seniorman I no dey justify anything here... D pikin Don die... The proper thing is to hand over the girl to d police.. But look at what they are doing how can we develop like this... And other kids are watching... What m saying is dat that particular plant is very toxic.. It's in d class of cocaine, weed, codeine.. Toxic and medicinal I don't know why people plant it around their house... Kids should not be playing around that deadly plant let alone touching it...
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by Nobody: 8:29pm On Jul 22, 2021
post=103982923:
......and what point are they trying to prove by thing the corpse to her back?
Is that the only way to pass a message to her?
Very Backward anyhow people everywhere.


We guess this was the same 'leave' 9ice sang about in his track Gbamu-Gbamu Jigi-Jigi ?

Gegemu dey here, mafiku sere!...Is that gegemu? Don't toy with death!!
All the stories we have heard, see, read about this particular leaf have never end well.

Guys, BEWARE OF GEGEMU, It kills you before your time.



This reminds us.....
Let's give you a true life story about this gegemu before starting our Barbecue duty for the night .....

LONG READ, IF YOU ARE OBE OF THE LAZY YOUTHS,
Scroll down to the next post with sweetened!
If you love interesting and educative, very educative post, read on friends........

The 'gegemu' Party: A real life story

Birthdays
during my undergraduate days in the university were always lit.
From early morning beating rituals to late night parties filled with food and booze. Did I say early morning beating? Yea, celebrants always take some beatings for the culture. The break of dawn usually sees friends (and foes, perhaps) gathered to take their pound of flesh from the celebrants. Some go as far as pouring powdery flower and water on the birthday victim. Missiles of sachet waters fly around like its Syrian war while assailants render a line from a popular song:

We are getting old and getting high!
Afternoons are filled with little or no activities since everyone would be engaged in one or more academic activities. It is a university after all. Nights are the most interesting and are usually filled with booze, girls, music and a whole lot of fun. I am sure some of my Nigerian readers can relate and would give anything to have those days back.

Back then, alcohol seemed like the heart of any party. Without it, party rockers don’t come to play. Alcohol level tolerance differs among individuals. While some are already talking gibberish and confessing their sins with just two bottles of beer (usually of about 14O proof or 7% alcohol each), some are just getting started at one crate (a crate of beer is twelve bottles). Science has it that alcohol tolerance is hinged on varieties of factors such as body weight, age, sex, mood, ethnicity (?), rate of consumption as well as the food and drinks taken before the commencement of alcohol consumption. However, I am sure there were guys that defied all the hypotheses of science about alcohol consumption back then.

It was during one of those night birthday parties a friend (birthday celebrant) of mine got introduced to a stuff that could help him save money on alcohol supply for his party. After taking the beating of his life early in the morning, plans went underway to make the night the talk of the town. The bulk of the plan focused on alcohol supply which seemed set to suffer due to a shortage of funds. Unfortunately, a couple of the invitees would pass as those that would readily defy scientific explanation on alcohol consumption. Something drastic had to be done and indeed, something really drastic was done

Suggestions started flying-in left, right, front, back and center. The idea of beer for the night was totally ruled out simply because of those that could turn beer into water; no amount of beer can inebriate them. We jokingly call them antichrist because their actions seem to be an antithesis of Christ’s miracle in the bible. He turned water intto wine, they turn beer into water. Infusion of weed (Cannabis sativa) into home-made punch drink was also suggested but quickly thrown out because of the illegality of weed.
Guys did not want the school authority clamping down on them because of a birthday party. Finally, one popular guy volunteered to provide something that could be mixed with home-made punch, legal, safe and guaranteed to knock even the biggest alcohol-tolerant person off his/her feet. The idea seemed perfect and everything seemed set. The night came and dissolved quickly.

The following morning was quite melodramatic. As at 10:00 am, music could still be heard loudly in the party room without any sound of life coming-in or going out of it. This aroused the curiousity of the neighbouring students and a visit was made to the party scene. A couple of participants were found sleeping in the room, some were found sleeping in the toilet and the celebrant himself was nowhere to be found. It took quite an effort to bring them back to life and when they did, no sense could be made of what they were saying. Whatever they have taken the previous night is yet to disintegrate half of its half-life in their systems. Where could the celebrant be? Perhaps he has early morning classes and has left for academic area?

Majority of those around concluded the celebrant must have gone for classes. It took almost four hours for those that were woken from slumbering to start regaining their senses, albeit none of them could vividly recall what transpired the previous night. Whatever has been introduced into their drink must be extremely powerful. Six o’clock Post Meridiem: still, no sign of the celebrant.

After what seemed like an eternity, a call came through to one of the participants, a mutual friend of mine and the celebrant. The call was from Chief Medical Director of the University’s health center. The celebrant has been hospitalized and the attention of those close to him was needed. Ten minutes after, about ten of us were at the male ward of the university’s health center where our friend (the celebrant) was lying awake and looking at us like a total stranger. Something about him looked different and sinister. The doctor in charge of his case has a lot of explanation to do. What happened to him


Your friend was brought-in about thirty minutes ago all the way from Benin. He was found sleeping by the road side along Ore-Benin highway and was brought here as a result of the university’s identity card found on him. We had to charge the phone found on him before we were able to contact you. He seemed to have lost his memories and reeks of alcohol…

The doctor continued talking while all of us present kept looking at each other with a telepathic exchange of questions taking place.
A lot of what the doctor is saying do not add up. If a driver moves at an average speed of one hundred kilometre per hour (which is almost impossible on Nigerian roads), it will take nothing less than six hours to get to Benin from the location of the University. It simply means our friend left for Benin long before the break of dawn, perhaps while his birthday party was at its peak. How did he get to Benin? What was his mission there and was he doing lying on the road? There are over a thousand questions with no single answer. Perhaps we should rather ask; what was present in the drink that they took at the party?

The question from the doctor must have jolted us all back to reality. An explanation was made to the doctor about went down and how no one has an idea of when, why and how he got to where the patient was found. The doctor explained further that our friend needs urgent medical attention but what was mixed with the drink he took at the party needs to be identified first. Unfortunately, the supplier of the substance was not at the scene. A call was made through to him and he mumbled faintly on the phone

WTF is Gegemu?
Those that are close to me know that I am a teetotaller; an attribute that is virtually incompatible with a typical birthday party in the student’s hostels within the university. Therefore, even though I participated in the early morning beating rituals for my friend’s birthday, I was deep asleep while the night party was going on. Hence, I knew virtually nothing about what they ate or drank during the event. However, the mention of the word ‘Gegemu’ reminded me of one of the songs that were reigning then:

It was later on after the whole incidence that I took my scientific self to research about the substance that was responsible for such an evil and dangerous reactions. The after-party experience observed was as a result of an infusion of a particular plant into their drink of the participants. Datura as the plant is botanically called is a genus of a flowering plant in Solanaceae family; the same family with the egg-plant. The genus is believed to be native to North America (Mexico to be particular) and exotically found in other parts of the world. It is made up of about nine species; D. stramonium, D. innoxia, D. wrightii, D. metel, D. discolour, D. leichhardtii, D. ferox and a host of others

Out of the nine species, three are found growing in different areas in Nigeria including D. innoxia, D. stramonium and D. metel with the latter being the most popular among the populace, especially the youths (the reason is quite obvious). D. metel is popularly known as ‘gegemu’ or ‘apikan’ among the Yoruba tribe found in the Southwestern part of the country, ‘zakami’ among the Hausas found in the North and ‘Myaramuo’ among the Igbos which are predominant in the South. The plant grows as an annual shrub or perennial herb with erect stems and a characteristic smell. Depending on the cultivar, the colour of the plant’s flower ranges from white, cream, yellow, red to violet. It produces a green, knoby fruit.

The plant has a wide variety of application that has been investigated both scientifically and ethnobotanically. It has been shown in several types research to have antifungal, antibacterial, cytotoxic as well as hallucinogenic properties. Proximate, nutritional and phytochemical analysis of the seeds of the plant revealed a highly nutritious but phytotoxic potential. Tropane alkaloids and scopolamine have been reported to be present in the plant and both have wide application in the world of medicine.

The capacity of the plant and its component to cause memory loss as well as slurred speech has been investigated in rats under laboratory condition and results showed a modification to the brain frontal cortex, the portion of the brain associated with memory, verbal communication and reasoning etc. Several medical cases associated with deliberate or mistaken ingestion of the plant have been reported prior to this particular incidence. In fact, a majority of the population of a whole town have been reported to have run mad because they mistakenly utilized the leaves of the plant in cooking their food

Report of abuse of the plant also abounds both locally and internationally. It has been recognized as one of the most popular and readily available as well as legal alternative to illegal/scarce/expensive psychoactive active substances in the country. According to several sources, fresh or dried parts of the plant are wrapped and smoked by youths and hoodlums as an alternative to marijuana.

Report of abuse of the plant also abounds both locally and internationally. It has been recognized as one of the most popular and readily available as well as legal alternative to illegal/scarce/expensive psychoactive active substances in the country. According to several sources, fresh or dried parts of the plant are wrapped and smoked by youths and hoodlums as an alternative to marijuana.
Back to the health center scene

Those that participated in the bash that has regained some level of normalcy explained that a decoction of D. metel was mixed with punch drink that already contained a significant level of alcohol to make the birthday party go wild. The individual effects of alcohol and the active substances present in the plant is quite enough to provoke series of undesirable reactions, let alone a combined/synergistic reaction. They really invited it on themselves.

The mention of ‘gegemu’ helped the doctor in diagnosing what could be wrong with the now indisposed celebrant. He was placed under intensive care for close to 5 days before returning to a semblance of himself. However, up till today, none of those that participated nor the celebrant himself could recall what transpired during the party. How the celebrant got to Benin overnight remains an absolute mystery

Say no substance abuse!


Thank you all for reading.




[/b]
Thanks sir.
You are permitted to use this to open a thread sir.
Barbecue duty calls.

Btw
We no be bro o.
We are simply [b]WE
.

When your right side brain is effectively in use, you are wonderful and amazing. But when APC and Buhari is the issue on ground, the right side of your brain is compromised, giving way to the left to disgrace and embarrass your personality.
I enjoy your story tho. grin
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by morule20(m): 8:29pm On Jul 22, 2021
See d way she wasted dis small baby, foolish girl, see her big breast, while not feed d baby her big breast instead of d leaf if she does not know any other thing to feed d baby...
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by FatherCHRISTMAS: 8:33pm On Jul 22, 2021
josh123:
It might not be intentional, how the girl want take know say the leaf dey poisonous??
you may be right
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by Onyeka2019: 8:40pm On Jul 22, 2021
josh123:
It might not be intentional, how the girl want take know say the leaf dey poisonous??


Why she go give am lead to chop Che leaf nah food or meat.. let’s call a spade a spade
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by Kaybex007(m): 8:40pm On Jul 22, 2021
after reading the story, I will conclude that the killing was not intentional, the brother said the boy was sick, taken to the hospital and got wick again, the girl must have thought the leaf would have cured the sickness without knowing it's poison. may the boy soul rest in peace. Amen.
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by Onyeka2019: 8:42pm On Jul 22, 2021
FatherCHRISTMAS:
you may be right

Which you may be right l.. he’s absolutely wrong on he’s words.. why person go cut leaf they feed pikin?

no nah wickedness b that?
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by Marcy45marcy: 8:42pm On Jul 22, 2021
Hi
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by Onyeka2019: 8:43pm On Jul 22, 2021
Kaybex007:
after reading the story, I will conclude that the killing was not intentional, the brother said the boy was sick, taken to the hospital and got wick again, the girl must have thought the leaf would have cured the sickness without knowing it's poison. may the boy soul rest in peace. Amen.

Hmm Mr writer.
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by Onyeka2019: 8:43pm On Jul 22, 2021
Marcy45marcy:
Hi


Waiting be Hi?

You no see word to say again nah Hi
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by FatherCHRISTMAS: 8:44pm On Jul 22, 2021
Onyeka2019:


Which you may be right l.. he’s absolutely wrong on he’s words.. why person go cut leaf they feed pikin?

no nah wickedness b that?
K

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Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by Cnach: 8:44pm On Jul 22, 2021
Patrioticman007:
Na dem, see the background & mansions behind her, these online people can raise the dead with their lies.
U go wicked o.
Wey the mansion?
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by TOPCRUISE(m): 8:46pm On Jul 22, 2021
josh123:
It might not be intentional, how the girl want take know say the leaf dey poisonous??
The leaf itself is toxic but not that poisonous as It can be used to treat some ailments.
But she erred in taking the role of Doctor in treating somebody's child.
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by Elock1: 8:47pm On Jul 22, 2021
Judolisco:
seniorman I no dey justify anything here... D pikin Don die... The proper thing is to hand over the girl to d police.. But look at what they are doing how can we develop like this... And other kids are watching... What m saying is dat that particular plant is very toxic.. It's in d class of cocaine, weed, codeine.. Toxic and medicinal I don't know why people plant it around their house... Kids should not be playing around that deadly plant let alone touching it...
oh.. I'm sorry for misunderstanding
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by cybriz82(m): 8:50pm On Jul 22, 2021
MrBanner:
The question is, did she do it deliberately?

Nah I dnt think so...maybe she trying how d thing go mke d boy go gaga...like giving a small child a drop of alcoholic drink..
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by Oppy2k2: 8:53pm On Jul 22, 2021
The teenage girl was just trying her best to save the poor boy. May we not enter into trouble while trying to be a hero who is willing to save another life.
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by kelmicheal: 8:58pm On Jul 22, 2021
Who no fear tradition
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by eyinjuege: 8:59pm On Jul 22, 2021
I'm sure the boy died of his illness rather than any leaf

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Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by ThatFairGuy1: 9:01pm On Jul 22, 2021
Dem manna has always been an inspiration.
post=103982923:
......and what point are they trying to prove by thing the corpse to her back?
Is that the only way to pass a message to her?
Very Backward anyhow people everywhere.


We guess this was the same 'leave leaf' 9ice sang about in his track Gbamu-Gbamu Jigi-Jigi ?

Gegemu dey here, mafiku sere!...Is that gegemu? Don't toy with death!!
All the stories we have heard, saw, read about this particular leaf have never end well.

Guys, BEWARE OF GEGEMU, It kills you before your time.



This reminds us.....
Let's give you a true life story about this gegemu before starting our Barbecue duty for the night .....

LONG READ, IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE LAZY YOUTHS [/b]we have here,
Scroll down to the next post with speeeed!
If you love interesting and educative, very educative post, read on friends........


[b]The 'gegemu' Party: A real life story

Birthdays during my undergraduate days in the university were always lit.
From early morning beating rituals to late night parties filled with food and booze. Did I say early morning beating? Yea, celebrants always take some beatings for the culture. The break of dawn usually sees friends (and foes, perhaps) gathered to take their pound of flesh from the celebrants. Some go as far as pouring powdery flower and water on the birthday victim. Missiles of sachet waters fly around like its Syrian war while assailants render a line from a popular song:

We are getting old and getting high!
Afternoons are filled with little or no activities since everyone would be engaged in one or more academic activities. It is a university after all. Nights are the most interesting and are usually filled with booze, girls, music and a whole lot of fun. I am sure some of my Nigerian readers can relate and would give anything to have those days back.

Back then, alcohol seemed like the heart of any party. Without it, party rockers don’t come to play. Alcohol level tolerance differs among individuals. While some are already talking gibberish and confessing their sins with just two bottles of beer (usually of about 14O proof or 7% alcohol each), some are just getting started at one crate (a crate of beer is twelve bottles). Science has it that alcohol tolerance is hinged on varieties of factors such as body weight, age, sex, mood, ethnicity (?), rate of consumption as well as the food and drinks taken before the commencement of alcohol consumption. However, I am sure there were guys that defied all the hypotheses of science about alcohol consumption back then.

It was during one of those night birthday parties a friend (birthday celebrant) of mine got introduced to a stuff that could help him save money on alcohol supply for his party. After taking the beating of his life early in the morning, plans went underway to make the night the talk of the town. The bulk of the plan focused on alcohol supply which seemed set to suffer due to a shortage of funds. Unfortunately, a couple of the invitees would pass as those that would readily defy scientific explanation on alcohol consumption. Something drastic had to be done and indeed, something really drastic was done

Suggestions started flying-in left, right, front, back and center. The idea of beer for the night was totally ruled out simply because of those that could turn beer into water; no amount of beer can inebriate them. We jokingly call them antichrist because their actions seem to be an antithesis of Christ’s miracle in the bible. He turned water intto wine, they turn beer into water. Infusion of weed (Cannabis sativa) into home-made punch drink was also suggested but quickly thrown out because of the illegality of weed.
Guys did not want the school authority clamping down on them because of a birthday party. Finally, one popular guy volunteered to provide something that could be mixed with home-made punch, legal, safe and guaranteed to knock even the biggest alcohol-tolerant person off his/her feet. The idea seemed perfect and everything seemed set. The night came and dissolved quickly.

The following morning was quite melodramatic. As at 10:00 am, music could still be heard loudly in the party room without any sound of life coming-in or going out of it. This aroused the curiousity of the neighbouring students and a visit was made to the party scene. A couple of participants were found sleeping in the room, some were found sleeping in the toilet and the celebrant himself was nowhere to be found. It took quite an effort to bring them back to life and when they did, no sense could be made of what they were saying. Whatever they have taken the previous night is yet to disintegrate half of its half-life in their systems. Where could the celebrant be? Perhaps he has early morning classes and has left for academic area?

Majority of those around concluded the celebrant must have gone for classes. It took almost four hours for those that were woken from slumbering to start regaining their senses, albeit none of them could vividly recall what transpired the previous night. Whatever has been introduced into their drink must be extremely powerful. Six o’clock Post Meridiem: still, no sign of the celebrant.

After what seemed like an eternity, a call came through to one of the participants, a mutual friend of mine and the celebrant. The call was from Chief Medical Director of the University’s health center. The celebrant has been hospitalized and the attention of those close to him was needed. Ten minutes after, about ten of us were at the male ward of the university’s health center where our friend (the celebrant) was lying awake and looking at us like a total stranger. Something about him looked different and sinister. The doctor in charge of his case has a lot of explanation to do. What happened to him


Your friend was brought-in about thirty minutes ago all the way from Benin. He was found sleeping by the road side along Ore-Benin highway and was brought here as a result of the university’s identity card found on him. We had to charge the phone found on him before we were able to contact you. He seemed to have lost his memories and reeks of alcohol…

The doctor continued talking while all of us present kept looking at each other with a telepathic exchange of questions taking place.
A lot of what the doctor is saying do not add up. If a driver moves at an average speed of one hundred kilometre per hour (which is almost impossible on Nigerian roads), it will take nothing less than six hours to get to Benin from the location of the University. It simply means our friend left for Benin long before the break of dawn, perhaps while his birthday party was at its peak. How did he get to Benin? What was his mission there and was he doing lying on the road? There are over a thousand questions with no single answer. Perhaps we should rather ask; what was present in the drink that they took at the party?

The question from the doctor must have jolted us all back to reality. An explanation was made to the doctor about went down and how no one has an idea of when, why and how he got to where the patient was found. The doctor explained further that our friend needs urgent medical attention but what was mixed with the drink he took at the party needs to be identified first. Unfortunately, the supplier of the substance was not at the scene. A call was made through to him and he mumbled faintly on the phone

WTF is Gegemu?
Those that are close to me know that I am a teetotaller; an attribute that is virtually incompatible with a typical birthday party in the student’s hostels within the university. Therefore, even though I participated in the early morning beating rituals for my friend’s birthday, I was deep asleep while the night party was going on. Hence, I knew virtually nothing about what they ate or drank during the event. However, the mention of the word ‘Gegemu’ reminded me of one of the songs that were reigning then:

It was later on after the whole incidence that I took my scientific self to research about the substance that was responsible for such an evil and dangerous reactions. The after-party experience observed was as a result of an infusion of a particular plant into their drink of the participants. Datura as the plant is botanically called is a genus of a flowering plant in Solanaceae family; the same family with the egg-plant. The genus is believed to be native to North America (Mexico to be particular) and exotically found in other parts of the world. It is made up of about nine species; D. stramonium, D. innoxia, D. wrightii, D. metel, D. discolour, D. leichhardtii, D. ferox and a host of others

Out of the nine species, three are found growing in different areas in Nigeria including D. innoxia, D. stramonium and D. metel with the latter being the most popular among the populace, especially the youths (the reason is quite obvious). D. metel is popularly known as ‘gegemu’ or ‘apikan’ among the Yoruba tribe found in the Southwestern part of the country, ‘zakami’ among the Hausas found in the North and ‘Myaramuo’ among the Igbos which are predominant in the South. The plant grows as an annual shrub or perennial herb with erect stems and a characteristic smell. Depending on the cultivar, the colour of the plant’s flower ranges from white, cream, yellow, red to violet. It produces a green, knoby fruit.

The plant has a wide variety of application that has been investigated both scientifically and ethnobotanically. It has been shown in several types research to have antifungal, antibacterial, cytotoxic as well as hallucinogenic properties. Proximate, nutritional and phytochemical analysis of the seeds of the plant revealed a highly nutritious but phytotoxic potential. Tropane alkaloids and scopolamine have been reported to be present in the plant and both have wide application in the world of medicine.

The capacity of the plant and its component to cause memory loss as well as slurred speech has been investigated in rats under laboratory condition and results showed a modification to the brain frontal cortex, the portion of the brain associated with memory, verbal communication and reasoning etc. Several medical cases associated with deliberate or mistaken ingestion of the plant have been reported prior to this particular incidence. In fact, a majority of the population of a whole town have been reported to have run mad because they mistakenly utilized the leaves of the plant in cooking their food

Report of abuse of the plant also abounds both locally and internationally. It has been recognized as one of the most popular and readily available as well as legal alternative to illegal/scarce/expensive psychoactive active substances in the country. According to several sources, fresh or dried parts of the plant are wrapped and smoked by youths and hoodlums as an alternative to marijuana.

Report of abuse of the plant also abounds both locally and internationally. It has been recognized as one of the most popular and readily available as well as legal alternative to illegal/scarce/expensive psychoactive active substances in the country. According to several sources, fresh or dried parts of the plant are wrapped and smoked by youths and hoodlums as an alternative to marijuana.
Back to the health center scene

Those that participated in the bash that has regained some level of normalcy explained that a decoction of D. metel was mixed with punch drink that already contained a significant level of alcohol to make the birthday party go wild. The individual effects of alcohol and the active substances present in the plant is quite enough to provoke series of undesirable reactions, let alone a combined/synergistic reaction. They really invited it on themselves.

The mention of ‘gegemu’ helped the doctor in diagnosing what could be wrong with the now indisposed celebrant. He was placed under intensive care for close to 5 days before returning to a semblance of himself. However, up till today, none of those that participated nor the celebrant himself could recall what transpired during the party. How the celebrant got to Benin overnight remains an absolute mystery

Say no substance abuse!


Thank you all for reading.




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Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by sylve11: 9:08pm On Jul 22, 2021
dynicks:
So even in death, peeps around there still had to stress the dead corpse for hours.....The girl messed up buh the people that tied the dead kid onto girl's back really needs be checked too!...

You don see am na. sad cool
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by Truvelisback(m): 9:10pm On Jul 22, 2021
josh123:
It might not be intentional, how the girl want take know say the leaf dey poisonous??
U never jam! dem dey write intentional 4 forehead?
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by sylve11: 9:12pm On Jul 22, 2021
Richy4:
That is just barbaric for them to do that to a 16 year old whom the law considered as a minor...
They don't even know the reason the child passed on...The family has already carried out an instant mouth Autopsy report immediately within few mins sad...

What then happened if a post-mortem examination is carried out and what they thought, was not actually what it was...


My brother, I tire for mankind and their wahala. cool
Re: Delta: Dead Child Tied On A Girl's Back For "Feeding Him With Poisonous Leaf" by themanderon: 9:12pm On Jul 22, 2021
How do we explain this? They should perform an autopsy on the child to be certain of the cause of death since he has previously taken ill before. This is one reason I don't give anything eatable to any neighbors child. You don't know who already has one foot on the other side. You may be accused of killing someone based on your innocuous actions.

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