Monday, July 16, 2012

37-year-old mother commits suicide in Kogi State, leaving behind a six month old baby

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What could have prompted a 37-year-old mother of two to take her life six days after given birth to a new baby?


This is the question begging for an answer in Kogi State, as the woman who was simply called by her neighbor as Mama Deborah, reportedly left her room on that fateful night to ease herself but never come back. The incident which took place at Ganaja village in Lokoja, the state capital.

It revealed that the husband of the deceased decided to look for her, when the new born baby started crying ceaselessly without attention.

It was at this stage that he discovered his wife was hanging onto a protruding iron, from the ceiling of their house using fishing net.

Investigations by our reporter, revealed that the deceased had been threatening several times to commit suicide at every slight provocation from her husband.

The incident came after she picked a quarrel with her husband and refused to go into the room until she was persuaded by the people living around, before she went inside to sleep.

It was also revealed that a few days to the unfortunate incidence, the deceased who was attending Omega Fire Ministry, was said to have put a call to her pastor informing him of her failing health.

The pastor, it was learnt came down to see her and took the woman to the hospital, where she was allegedly asked to be given blood before she was taken back home by the benevolent pastor, along with the drugs prescribed for her.

It was further revealed that the deceased before her death, she was not having a cordial relationship with her mother, to the extent that she distanced herself from the woman before and after she gave birth to the new baby

Another source also disclosed that why the woman decided to commit suicide, was as a result of the medical report that confirmed her health status a HIV Positive patient and decided to take her own life instead of facing the disgrace and stigma.

However, the husband confirmed to Daily Post that he was detained by the police soon after the incident but was released after the interrogation.

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