Jilted by lover: 21-yr-old student commits suicide

F
RIENDS and family members of a 21-year-old
student of Maritime Academy Oron, Effiong Otu
are at a loss why he committed suicide by
hanging himself on a rope in his room on
Thursday morning after he was jilted by his girl
friend.
Ann, a family member told Vanguard that
Effiong was found hanging in his room at
Diamond Hill, a few minutes after he collected a
rope from neighbours who became suspicious
soon after he went inside his room with the
rope wondering what he wanted to use it for.
According to the source, when his mother Grace
Otu, a nurse at the University of Calabar
Teaching Hospital left the house at about 3pm
on that fateful day, the young man borrowed a
rope and killed himself.
According Ann: “The 10th of July was the 10th
anniversary of his father’s death in a car
accident and after the anniversary and everyone
had left the house including his mother, he
went to a neighbour and borrowed a rope which
he took to his room and hung himself.”
Ann said: “The neighbours became suspicious of
what he was doing in his room with the rope
and decided to rush there but found the door to
the room locked and before they could force the
door open he had died.”
She said before he hung himself, he called one
of his friends, Adu on phone requesting him to
tell his girl friend, Blessing who works with the
UNICEM that she should now be happy that he
has killed himself for her.
“Before his friend could rush to the house, the
door had already been forced open by
neighbours and Effiong’s body was hanging from
the ceiling of the house”.
Ann stated that Effiong was an only son of the
family and was given the late father’s name as a
source of succor for the family but “he has again
left us by this thoughtless action”
Perhaps to give an inkling of his planned action ,
Effiong had posted his face book page on the
6th of July the following message “It’s not about
being engaged, married or in a relationship. It’s
about being happy, safe, secured, relieved and
feeling good. It’s about peaceful state of mind,
it’s about sleeping at night without the fear of
losing what you’ve got.
It’s being yourself and not someone else, it’s
about feeling loved, happy, respected,
understood, cared for and appreciated.!
Goodnight my beautiful people!!
Efforts to speak with Hogan Bassey, the Cross
River State Police Public Relations Officer did not
yield any success as his phone was switched off.
Effiong’s body has been removed and de[posited
at the mortuary of the General Hospital,
Calabar.