A civil
servant with the Abia State ministry of lands and survey yesterday committed
suicide over funds to purchase uniforms
demanded by the wife for women’ s day celebration of their church.
The deceased
it was learnt, has not received his salaries for some months and was finding it
difficult to meet his family’s monthly bills.
The civil
servant identified only as Mr Nwakwo, who was
in his fifties left a
suicide note in his sitting room before his wife and his three
children returned back from church.
The
deceased, who hails from Ihe Ndume. community in Umuahia North local government
and a father of four children; two in primary schools, while the remaining two
are in secondary schools, was said to
have given excuses to the wife why he would not be going to church with them
without indicating that he intended taking his life.
According to
a family source who did not want his identity disclosed,the late civil servant
before hanging himself often approached family members and some friends for
financial assistance and raw food items to keep his family going
According to
the source , ahead of yesterday’s
Mother’s Day, the wife had asked
her late husband for money to purchase the uniform clothes agreed by the women
in the church to wear for the celebration, “I believe his inability to foot the bill and other
things may have resulted in the man
committing suicide,” he said.
A written
note dropped by the deceased which is
now at the custody of the police in Ehimiri police station reads, “ I have no
other place to go, no hope, nothing to give to my children to eat and no salary for the past four months, am sorry I have to
do this.”
According to a community leader, Eric Nkwokocha , the community felt bad with the demise of the
community member.
He also disclosed that the corpse has been deposited
at the Federal Medical Center, Umuahia.
