Man commits suicide in Aba

A young man in his late twenty living at
Umuobe village, Ovom 1 and a graduate of
Abia State Polytechnic, Aba, has allegedly
committed suicide by hanging himself with a
rope in his family house.
According to the reports, the man whose name
was yet to be ascertained allegedly killed
himself on Sunday after attending a church
service in one of the Catholic Church in the
area.
The young man who was said to be an
orphan, The Nation was told, would be among
the next set of graduates that would be
shortlisted for the compulsory one National
Youth Service Scheme.
Until his death, many who knew him said that
he was doing tiling job and was feeding well
as he has customers and was making a lot of
income from the business.
They however said that they were yet to point
out the reason why he should end his life
through such a deadly mission on that fateful
Sunday.
Though the family members were yet to be
reached, a source in the area who confirmed
the incident said; “he returned from church on
Sunday after attending one of the church
services and nobody suspected that such a
thing was going to happen. It was around
5pm that the bad news broke.
“The mother and the dad we learnt are all
dead. I think he is the breadwinner of the
family. It is very unfortunate. We learnt that
he will be among the people that will be going
for NYSC soon because he schooled in Abia
poly. We are yet to understand how the
incident happened. The boy has a handwork
which was fetching him money, so I don’t
think that it was hunger or out of frustration
that led him into such action. I learnt his girl
friend and a few other persons were around,
though I learnt that the girl friend was said to
be in the kitchen when the incident happened.
“According to the people of the area, the
incident is a sacrilege and that they have to
perform some rituals before his body could be
touched and buried. So, it was on Monday
that they (villagers) after performing the
rituals took away his corpse from the room
where it was lying,” the source stated.
The source said that fiancé to the deceased
was later invited to the Azuka Police station in
whose jurisdiction the incident happened.
But when contacted, the Abia State Police
Commissioner, CP Joshiak Habila who
confirmed the incident said that the matter
was yet to be officially reported to the police.