NYSC MEMBER COMMITS SUICIDE OVER GIRLFRIEND

NYSC member commits suicide over
girlfriend
The body of a 26-year-old National Youth Service
Corp, NYSC, member, identified as Ernest, was,
Wednesday, recovered from his one room
apartment after he reportedly took a poisonous
substance.
Reports indicated that the young man, who was in
love with a fellow NYSC member, Chioma Okewuru,
went berserk when the girl came back from her
village over the weekend with a ring from a man
she had promised to marry.
Ernest, who is from Edo State and a graduate of the
University of Benin, was posted to Cross River
State in October, where he met and fell in love with
Chioma, and both were serving in Redemption
Secondary School, Ofombogha 1 in Obubra Local
Government Area of Cross Rivers State.
Mr. Noah Ntuen, Acting Divisional Police Officer for
Obubra told Vanguard on phone: “The girl had told
the guy that she would not marry him, but that
they could be friends. So when she came back
from home last weekend and showed him the ring
her husband-to-be gave her, the young man
became furious.
“On Wednesday, the situation became worse and at
about 7pm, he locked himself in the room and took
some poisonous substances.”
A source in the school told Vanguard: “They met at
the NYSC Orientation Camp at Abrekpe-Ebokpo and
as luck would have it, they were both posted to the
same school where they had a relationship going.
“He had the hope the whole thing would end in
marriage, but Chioma already had another person
she wants to marry.”
Ntuen said the body had been deposited in the
mortuary of Obubra General Hospital, while Chioma
is with the police, where investigations on the
circumstances surrounding the tragic death are in
progress.