Two people, a man and a woman, have reportedly committed suicide in Ibadan, Oyo State and Ilorin, Kwara State. Residents of Ayegbami Zone 7 and the entire community of Idi Ose on Akanran Road in the Ona Ara Local Government Area of Ibadan were shocked on Tuesday evening to discover that a landlord in the area, Popoola Adepoju, had committed suicide in his room.
The 48-year-old father of three (a boy and two girls), and former employee of the defunct National Electric Power Authority (NEPA), was said to have sent his children out of his house, marked No. 17 on Tuesday evening before committing suicide.
His wife, who was also not at home at the time of the incident, was said to have come back later in the evening to discover that her husband had taken his life by hanging himself with a rope tied to the ceiling fan in his room.
The distraught wife told the policemen who visited the house yesterday morning that her husband was disengaged from the NEPA establishment at Abeokuta two years ago, but had not been paid his entitlements.
The deceased left a three-sheet suicide note which initially caused a controversy between some members of the family and the police as they refused to release it to the police. In Ilorin, a middle-aged woman identified simply as Medina took her life by jumping into a well at Oloje compound. Although no reason has been established for her action, sources close to the family said Medina had for some times exhibited traits of someone suffering from “depression.”
