Tobias Sylvester
Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested a female restauranter, Mrs Gloria Edet, popularly known as Madam Honey Food, for allegedly cooking food with mortuary water in order to attract customers in restaurant located along Itam road in Uyo.
Mrs Edet was reportedly arrested on Wednesday after she was exposed by a mortuary attendant who claimed she was owing him money for three months.
According to reports, the morgue attendant told the police that Edet visits him daily to buy the water he used in bathing corpses so that she will use it to prepare the food she serve in her restaurant.
On interrogation, Edet confessed that she uses the water she buys from the mortuary to make the charms she uses in preparing the food she sells to attract more customers and make more money.
She said because of the charms anyone that goes into her restaurant to eat will automatically be addicted to eating her food.
The woman is reportedly detained at the police headquarters, Ikot Akpanabia, Uyo.
IN OTHER NEWS: A Zambian woman identified as Bana Joe has been accused of poisoning her stepson to death after he asked her for food.
It was gathered that the woman is alleged to have killed the young boy because she was tired of preparing meals for the 4 years old child.
