A retired school Principal in Imo State, Stephen Nnadi, has reportedly committed suicide.
Nnadi was said to have killed himself following the failure of government to pay his pensions and gratuity.
The death of the ex-principal was announced by the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Orlu, Most Rev. Bennett Okoro, in an emotion-laden 85-page presidential address, delivered during this year’s synod.
He said, “A former school principal, Stephen Nnadi, who retired from the Imo State school system last December, committed suicide last week.”
Bishop Okoro further disclosed that the late retired school principal had reportedly complained on several occasions that life was becoming increasingly difficult and unbearable for him since he retired last year from the state school system.
He added, “The reason was that he had not been paid pension and gratuity since retirement and could not take care of his family and he felt he was a failure.”
He further narrated how another suicide attept was averted in the state, following his intervention, even as he gave a graphic detail of how the jobless and frustrated man visited and pointedly told him that he was going to hang himself.
The Bishop appealed to the Imo State Government to pay the pensioners all their entitlements.
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