For
not having the money to buy a ram to celebrate the eid-el-kabir festivity, a 48-year-old
man, on Thursday committed suicide in Abuja, Nigeria.
Reports have it that the man, Abdulrazak Wasiu was alleged to have
killed himself, as members of his family woke up from sleep to behold their
breadwinner hanging at their resident at Gado-Nasko,
Kubwa, Abuja.
Rekiya Wasiu, wife of the deceased was reportedly
alerted by her four year old son at about 7 am.
The words of the wife: “I slept in the
children’s room last night because my first child was ill and it was too late
to take her to the hospital, since we all believed she would get better after
some self-medications.
“I told my husband to go to bed that I will
join him, only for me to have slept off in the children’s room.
“Earlier
yesterday, my husband had complained bitterly that we may not be able to
celebrate the ‘Ileya’ in a grand style as we intended. I told him all will be
well, that a miracle could happen before morning. All through yesterday, he was
moody.”
“A neighbour called me at about 5 p.m
yesterday to say he saw my husband at abattoir. He said my husband was probably
negotiating to buy one. He said he later saw him sitting on the floor with his
hand on his chin.
I called my husband to please come back home
but he said if he didn’t buy the biggest ram, he would rather kill himself. I
thought it was just a joke. He however, came home much later empty handed and
we laughed over everything,” she added.
The divisional police officer of Kubwa police command,
chief superintendent Nurudeen Sabo
confirmed the incident.
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