A civil servant with the Abia State ministry of lands and survey, whose name was simply given as Nwankwo, yesterday reportedly committed suicide over his inability to fund his wife’s uniforms for women’s day celebration of their church.
Leadership reports that Nwankwo has not received his salaries for some months and was finding it difficult to carter for his family’s monthly bills.
The civil servant, said to be in his fifties, dropped a suicide note in his sitting room before his wife and three children returned back from church.
Nwankwo hails from Ndume community in Umuahia North local government of Abia State and was a father of four children; two in primary schools, and the other two in secondary schools.
He 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.
An anonymous family source told the newspaper that the late civil servant had often approached family members and some friends for financial assistance and raw food items to keep his family going.
The source said that following last Sunday’s Mother’s Day celebration, the wife had demanded from her late husband money to buy 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.”
A written note dropped by the deceased which is now with 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.”
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