Popular Nigerian singer, Patrick Okorie, better known as Patoranking, has lost Chioma, his sister and brother-in-law.
DSP Joshua Ukandu, spokesman of the Command in the state told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Thursday that the incident occurred on August 25.
Ukandu said that preliminary investigation showed that the Chioma and George Onuabuchi, her husband di3d from gas explosion.
“It happened on waterworks axis in Abakaliki on August 25. The residents living around the scene called the attention of our personnel who visited the place but the couple has already been taken to hospital. It’s very unfortunate that both finally di3d. The wife, Chioma di3d sometime in August while the husband di3d this month, September.
We gathered that the wife was a younger sister to the popular Nigerian Afrobeat singer, Patoranking. There are no much details because the victims could not survive to tell the story. So, what kill3d them was gas and not inverter explosion,” the police spokesman explained.
Also speaking with NAN one of the relatives who refused to mention his name described the incident as bad for the family. “They were young couple. They had only a child, three years old son. Please I have more to say. I cannot say more than this. They have gone,” the relative said.
It would be recalled that in 2021, Patoranking gifted his sister an expensive car on her wedding
