According
to Punch newspaper, a 35-year-old woman by the names Ejobosele Okoruwa committed
suicide in Ekpoma, Esan West Local Government, Edo State, few hours after
dedicating her three months old baby in a church.
Ejobosele
dedicated her baby on Sunday, while she killed herself in the early hours of
Monday. Her lifeless body was found dangling from the ceiling with the wrapper
she allegedly used to hang herself.
Husband
of the deceased, Okoruwa told journalists that he slept in the sitting room
with two of his children, while his wife slept in the bedroom with their eldest
daughter and the baby.
Okoruwa
said it was shouts from his daughter around 2am that woke him up, adding that
he rushed inside the room only to see his wife dangling from the ceiling.
He
said recent behaviour of his wife indicated that she was depressed, but it did
not occur to him that she would take her own life.
He
said, “I usually sleep in the parlour with two of our children and it was not different
that day. My wife slept in the bedroom with our eldest daughter and the baby.
“Around
2am, my daughter started shouting from the bedroom. I rushed inside, thinking
that she was having a nightmare, but I was shocked to see the lifeless body of
my wife dangling from the ceiling. She had hung herself.
“She
had been exhibiting some strange behaviour recently. One time she would be
moody; the next, she will just be looking at one direction. When you call her
she would not respond.
“I
tried to know if she had any problem bothering her, but she said she was okay.
There was a time she told my eldest daughter to take care of the children that
she would be going away. I thought she was abandoning the marriage. I pleaded
and she promised to stay. She equally complained of some health problems. I
asked her to go for test which she did.”
The
Divisional Police Officer in-charge of Esan West, Mr. Akpoko Omuohowo, who
confirmed the incident, said the police were still investigating.
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