21-year-old Student Commits Suicide After Girlfriend Jilted Him

A 21-year-old student of Maritime
Academy Oron, Akwa Ibom, Effiong Otu
has taken his own life after being jilted
by his girlfriend.
Ann, a family member disclosed to
Vanguard that Effiong was found
hanging in his room at Diamond Hill,
Calabar, shortly after he collected a
rope from neighbours. They 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.
“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,” said
Ann.
“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.
According to her, before he hung
himself, he called one of his friends,
Adu on phone requesting him to tell his
girlfriend, 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”
Effiong’s body had since been removed
and deposited at the mortuary of the
General Hospital, Calabar.