A rude awakening it was for indigenes of Wokoma street, Mile 3 Diobu, Rivers State recently when a man identified as Chinedu Peter Ogwa allegedly kill himself over business failure and increasing amount of debts.
The 45 years old man had reportedly been acting strange prior to this incident which the wife, Chidinma Ogwa confirmed. He was said to have been frustrated by business failures, debts amongst others.
Narrating the incident news men, Chinenye said “It all started on the afternoon of Monday, August 25 2020, when he called me from where he was then he asked me what we are to eat this night, I told him not to worry, that I had already prepared soup. After a while, he came back and met me washing clothes outside, he stood beside me and began to laugh”.
“I was so curious to know why he was laughing, when he finally told me ‘you don’t know what I tried to do today’, that he wanted to take a rat poison so he could just die”.
“He told me he was frustrated, people are owing him, his business is not making headways since 15 years now, people are laying false accusation against him that he is doing this,he is doing that” the wife added.
“He continued and said ‘today I bought this rat poison to kill myself and then I remember you and my children, what people will say, how they will laugh at you,I concluded to I drop it and walked away , leaving everything to God'”. The Wife stressed further and said “I agreed and warned him not to ever try that again, then he promised and we laughed over it”
“On Wednesday again, my husband laid down on the bed after dinner and began to make some declaration like ‘I plead the blood of Jesus into my generation, I plead the blood of Jesus into my life’ repeatedly. I was not comfortable due to the intensity of the prayers so I told him to follow me to my church for deliverance on Thursday”.
“On that fateful Thursday while leaving the house, he asked me to leave the key that he would come back home before coming to church which I did but he did not follow us. It was when we got home we found out that the door was still locked but his phone torch was on inside the house because there was no power supply. We knocked and knocked, no reply”
“I then went to switch on the generator and told my 12-year old daughter to turn around and go turn off the refrigerator before turning the change-over switch on. It was when she turned the light to switch off the refrigerator, she saw her father laying cold on the floor of the house with whitish substance mixed with foam coming out from his mouth. She shouted, running out to call me as I rushed inside”
The remains of the Deceased, have reportedly been deposited in the mortuary.
By Taiwo Michael
GGB reports
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