Men of the Akwa Ibom police command yesterday
stopped a suicide attempt by a Mechanical
Engineering graduate of Ekiti State University who
identified himself as Sunday Omotayo.
According to eyewitness, Sunday jumped off a of a
speeding Toyota Hiace bus, expecting to be crushed
to death by oncoming vehicles on the road leading
to Ibom Plaza, Uyo.
The police said Sunday had earlier gone to the
Prison Service asking warders to either kill him or
allow him rot in jail.
An official at the prison who spoke anonymously
said, “We just saw somebody, well dressed and on
tie with no look of mentally deranged running
towards us. His action forced us to become
immediately alert with our weapons.
“The next thing he said was ‘shoot me’, ‘shoot me’,
‘I want to die’, ‘I am tired of this world.’ We were
still facing him with our weapons when he
scrambled towards us, saying we should allow him
to enter and die inside the prison.”
It was after prison officials calmed him done and
got him on a bus that from his sitting jumped off the
to attempt the failed suicide. Journalists at the
scenece heard Omotayo mumbling, “There is no
state that I have not gone to in search of job in the
past 10 years, but none for me.
Speaking with the press, Sunday lamented: “I came
to Akwa Ibom State because this is my last hope. I
have heard stories of Governor Godswill Akpabio
uncommon transformation. But unfortunately, since
I came, I discovered that even many people from
Akwa Ibom are also crying because of poverty and
joblessness.
Thursday, 10 April 2014
Unemployment: Graduate attempts suicide in Akwa Ibom
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