A
civil servant with the Abia State ministry of lands and survey
yesterday committed suicide over funds to purchase uniforms demanded by
the wife for women’ s day
celebration of their church.
The
deceased it was learnt, has not received his salaries for some months
and was finding it difficult to meet his family’s monthly bills.
The
civil servant identified only as Mr Nwakwo, who was in his fifties
left a suicide note in his sitting room before his wife and his three
children returned back from church.
The deceased, who hails from
Ihe Ndume. community in Umuahia North local government and a father of
four children; two in primary schools, while the remaining two are in
secondary schools, was said to have given excuses to the wife why he
would not be going to church with them without indicating that he
intended taking his life.
According to a family source who did
not want his identity disclosed,the late civil servant before hanging
himself often approached family members and some friends for financial
assistance and raw food items to keep his family going
According
to the source , ahead of yesterday’s Mother’s Day, the wife had asked
her late husband for money to purchase the uniform clothes agreed by the
women in the church to wear for the celebration, “I believe his
inability to foot the bill and other things may have resulted in the
man committing suicide,” he said.
A written note dropped by the
deceased which is now at the custody of the police in Ehimiri police
station reads, “ I have no other place to go, no hope, nothing to give
to my children to eat and no salary for the past four months, am sorry
I have to do this.”
According to a community leader, Eric Nkwokocha , the community felt bad with the demise of the community member.
He also disclosed that the corpse has been deposited at the Federal Medical Center, Umuahia.
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