A graduate took his own
life in Ikorodu town, Lagos State, western Nigeria, on New Year Day because he
claimed he was not allowed to marry his girlfriend.
Ikorodu
town, Lagos State, western Nigeria, was thrown into mourning on New Year day
when a graduate of Architecture, Ogunsona Daniel Adekunle Adebambo, committed
suicide by hanging himself in an uncompleted storey building.
The
suicide is coming on the heels of the controversy surrounding the death of a
mother of two, Mrs. Ibironke Sanni, 31, who allegedly committed suicide two
weeks ago by gulping Sniper insecticide in Sholebo Estate, Ikorodu, over her
husband’s alleged infidelity.
The
body of Adebambo was found around 1 a.m. yesterday dangling from a rope tied to
the hook of a fan in an uncompleted storey building at 1, Alice Ogunsona
Street, Hilltop Estate, Eruwen, Ikorodu.
NE investigations revealed that
Adebambo, 30, studied Architecture at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) and
did his national service in Abia State.
The
deceased was found by his younger brother after reading the suicide note he
left in their sitting room.
He
allegedly blamed his action on his girlfriend’s father who refused to allow him
marry his daughter.
A
friend of the deceased disclosed that Bambo, as he was fondly called, killed
himself because his fiancee’s father, who is from Ondo State, said his daughter
cannot marry him because he is an Ijebu man from Ogun State.
Many
of the sympathisers who gathered at his residence found the excuse for his
action difficult to believe.
Efforts
to speak with his fiancee proved abortive as she refused to talk.
The
atmosphere at the residence of the deceased in Eruwen was gloomy as family
members, friends and neighbours wore sombre look. Two ladies found leaving the
compound lamented the death of the man and disagreed with the note he
purportedly left stating the reason for taking his life.
Efforts
to speak with his brother and other family members were also unsuccessfual as
they refused to talk to our reporter.
They
threatened to send the reporter out of the compound and confiscate his camera.
A
resident of the Hilltop Estate, Ibrahim Adeola, who said he participated in
bringing down Adebambo’s body from the ceiling, recalled that he was dead and
stiff when they brought him down.
“When the family raised an alarm and we came here, he was already
foaming in his mouth and his hand was clenched in a fist. This signified that
he struggled till he died,” he said
