39-Year-Old Father Of Four Commits Suicide In Bayelsa

39-Year-Old Father Of Four Commits Suicide In Bayelsa

Tragedy struck in Edepie community in Yenagoa the Bayelsa state
capital today Wednesday December 19th, after a 39-year-old father of
four, Femi Otura, committed suicide by drinking a poisonous substance. 

According to reports, Otura who is a truck driver and hails from Kogi
state, lived with his wife, Oviezibe, an indigene of Bayelsa state who
is currently nursing their fourth child. He was well known for his abuse
of alcohol. Last night he came home drunk and retired into his home.
Neighbors however were woken up by his shouts for help.

Before the door to his house could be broken down, he had already died. Beside his lifeless body was a bottle of a poisonous substance.

Confirming the incident, the landlord of the apartment Philips Akpuzere, said;

“The deceased is a truck driver but recently lost his job and on this
fateful day, according to the other tenants he looked very unusual and
was wearing a moody countenance all day. He came back around 1:am on
Tuesday morning and immediately he entered his apartment we started
hearing screamings from his apartment.

We were suprised because he was the only one at home as his wife who
just put to bed had gone to her mother’s place with the other
children. When the screamings persisted I raised the alarm and other
tenants came out to join me to forcefully open the door to the apartment
where we met him already dead.

“We saw an empty bottle with some liquid besides him. We immediately
call a doctor who lives in the neighborhood who came and confirmed him
dead. We contacted the police who took the corpse to the morgue.”