Man Commits Suicide Over Debt in Kwara
Man Commits Suicide Over Debt in Kwara
By Alabidun Shuaib Abdulrahman
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Kwara State Command has confirmed that one Olakunle Obaoye, 25, committed suicide due to depression brought on by his inability to pay his debts.
According to a statement by the Command’s spokesman Babawale Afolabi, the deceased was discovered dead within a bush at Erinmope village near Ayedun in the Oke Ero local government area of the State.
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The event has been handed over to the police for further investigations and necessary actions, said the Command’s public relations officer Babawale Zaid Afolabi, who confirmed the incident to newsmen in Ilorin on Tuesday.
”On Monday 17/01/2022:at about 1200 hours one Thomas Obaoye of Ayedun town went to our divisional office in the area to notify our men on ground about the demise of his brother Olakunle Obaoye, 25, whose lifeless body was found hanging on the three in what look like a suicide” Babawale disclosed.
He went on to say that NSCDC men from the Ayedun Division later rushed to the scene of the event and teamed up with the victim’s relatives to bring his body down from the three.
It was further learnt that the dead body was then given over to the family for proper burial.