It was an ugly sight which does not deserve a recall nor demand frequent mention. How can grown-up people in a whole kindred be spreading faeces every here and there like babies? Some of the adults litter the pathway to their family general latrine with watery excrement. The most pathetic case was a youth who messed up his new jean trousers with stool and vomit at the same time.

Shouts of cholera in the nearby market made Ofemmiri village dreaded like a black cobra snake. People stopped fetching water from the streams and bore holes within the vicinity. Nobody wanted to be connected with cholera epidemics. Pregnant women, nursing mothers and little children were strategically evacuated from the village to safer homesteads within the Local Government Area. All primary and nursery schools within the village went on an impromptu vacation. All tenants living in the residential quarters fled from their abode to avert shameful infection.

Health Clinic in the village begin educating passersby and occupants in the neighbouring villages about preventive measures against spread of cholera. They employed local means of publicity like the town criers. You may ask why: A Stitch in Time Saves Nine.