A graduate of Abia State Polytechnic, Aba, waiting for the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC call-up, has allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself with a rope in his family house.
A shocking report has revealed that a graduate of Abia State Polytechnic, Aba, who is waiting for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) call up, has allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself with a rope in his family house on Sunday after attending a mass service in one of the Catholic churches in the area.
A resident of Umuobe village, Ovom, Obingwa LGA, where the incident took place spoke to correspondent, but wondered why a young man with a job would take his own life.
"He returned from church on Sunday and nobody suspected that such a thing was going to happen. It was around 5pm that the bad news broke. 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," he said.
Some sympathizers in the area, told correspondent that the incident was a sacrilege which made it compulsory for a ritual to be performed 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," they said.