A suicidal orphan in his early 30s has ended his own life. The man simply identified as Mundiu hanged himself on Friday in Ayede Ekiti, Oye LGA of Ekiti state. Hear what area residents told Saturday Sun:
“He used to complain about the fact
that he was very poor and living a wretched life, that he wasn’t making money
to take care of himself. Two months ago, he had an okada (motorcycle) accident
that almost claimed his life. He was moved out of the community for treatment.
Two weeks ago, we learnt that he was dead but just three days ago, we sighted
him in the community. Yesterday (Thursday), people heard him saying that by
today (Friday) the people of Ayede community would witness an amazing drama.
No one really read any meaning to
what he was saying. We didn’t know that he was referring to this suicidal
action”,“It was past 12 midnight this morning, a deaf neighbour of the
deceased, who we call Taiwo, raised the alarm that he saw something strange and
alerted others to come and see it.
We were asking him what it was that
happened but because he could not hear us, he didn’t answer us. All we did was
to just follow him to where he was directing our attention to. Eventually, he
took us to where the deceased had hanged himself. He was already dead by that
time. So, we just left him as you have seen him.We immediately called the
police but as you can see, they haven’t come.
“Mundiu had attempted suicide two
times before now. The first time, he had tried to hang himself but thankfully,
his father caught him and stopped it. Since then, his father had kept the rope
as an object of remembrance. Now his father is dead and could not witness this
abominable act, he has eventually committed.
His second attempt at killing
himself was a time we were told he just jumped into a river. That happened in
Lokoja, Kogi State. God had brought people on time to rescue him. This was his
third time and no one was there to stop him,”
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