Tragedy was averted Friday morning
at Bay Bridge road, Yenagoa, when a
40-year-old man, Ediekan, attempted
to commit suicide as a result of his
failed bid to have sex with a girl
with whom he reportedly had a long
standing relationship.
It took the timely inter- vention of
his neighbours to save the situation.
Ediekan, father of two children, was
said to have been spending money
to woo one Favour who lives within
the same neighborhood to go to bed
with him. But rather suc- cumb to
his pressure; Fa- vour resisted all
entreaties and kept on promising
that she would eventually marry
him.
However, on Thursday night, Ediekan
could no longer hide his frustrations
when he discovered that Fa- vour
was going to bed with another man.
Sources told Sunday Sun that
Ediekan immediately became
emotionally de- pressed and began
the plot to commit suicide within
the compound. In an inter- view
with our correspon- dent, his wife,
Florence, confessed that her
husband woke her up in the night
complaining that all the people he
loved did not re- ciprocate his love.
Accord- ingtoher,hewassuchina bad
mood that he asked if she could take
care of their two children if he dies.
She said “I was alarmed when he
came in complain- ing that all the
people he loved did not reciprocate
his love. As his wife, I re-
iterated my love to him, but he said
he wasn’t re- ferring to me, but one
Fa- vour whom he had spent so much
money for and yet refused to return
his ges- tures with love. He then
asked if I could take care of our two
children if he dies. At that point, I
be- came worried and tried to
discourage him from such negative
thoughts. Early in the morning, as
he stood up from the bed, I tried to
hold him back but he broke loose
and went outside. Even then, I
didn’t know that he had already got
a rope and some chairs where he
intended to hang himself. But after
a while, I saw him with a rope
around his neck and his legs
dangling in the air. I immediately
raised the alarm and neighbours
came around and used cutlass to
cut off the rope.”
Some of his neighbours expressed
disappointment over the incident.
But Ed- iekan, unremorseful in-
sisted that he would com- mit
suicide, as he could not watch
another man sleeping with Favour.
Subsequently, Favour was persuaded
to openly confess her love to him.
Amidst the crowd of people, she
obliged and even promised to marry
him.
Following the assurance, Ediekan
angrily told his neighbours to leave
him alone to face his problems,
adding that if he dies, peo- ple
would take care of his children.
Sunday Sun learned that the
Divisional Police Of- ficer (DPO) of
Ekeki on hearing the news deployed
some of his men to the scene to
investigate the in- cident.
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Who dey beg am self...im wan die for person wey he never marry....smb...stupidity at its peak

Bayelsa ,home of drama.