200-Level Student Commits Suicide After His Father Refused To Give Him Money

Ogbonna Shedrach, a 200-level student at Joseph Sarwuan Tarkaa University in Makurdi, Benue State, has allegedly committed suicide.

According to reports, the 20-year-old student allegedly hung himself due to family problems.

On Sunday, April 24, the school’s students union’s Public Relations Officer, Comrade Zaki Christian, verified the occurrence in a statement.

Before making such an extreme decision, the boy was claimed to have challenged his father over his refusal to provide him N50k to cover some urgent demands, according to Comrade Zaki.

The students union’s PRO said, “We have confirmed details and death of Ogbonna Shedrach aged 20, a 200L Student of our Varsity in the department of Biochemistry.

“According to family, Late Ogbonna Shedrach comes from a divorced marriage and until death faced challenges associated with the fate of a broken home.

“Sequel to his death, Ogbonna had confronted his father to release a token of 50,000 to assist him settling pressing needs, a conversation that took place repeatedly and angered him to succumb to SUICIDE BY HANGING after his father’s refusal to release the said amount.

“As a students Union, we have only become privy of this story on the premise of his death. We regret deeply this ugly menace and are reposed to kindly charge our Students to embrace whatever pains of life as occasioned to them by default, speak out where necessary but Never succumb to SUICIDE, MURDER OR CRIME.

“It’s with deliberacy that I unravelled the condition of his death to whereas enable you learn rightly.

“Be thus aware that; Death is only a ticket to the world where life is lived forever! Question is where?

“Our Condolences!”