Residents of Gado-Nasko, Kubwa, Abuja, were Thursday, thrown into mourning as a 48-year-old Ondo state indigene, Abdulrazak Wasiu, hung himself for allegedly not being able to provide enough for his family on the Eid-el celebration.

DAILY POST reports that the father of six who reportedly retired to bed hale and hearty, was seen dangling from his bedroom ceiling fan at about 7 a.m on Thursday, with his entire family, wailing over the sad incident.

When DAILY POST visited the scene of the incident, the deceased’s wife, Rekiya Wasiu, in a chat with our correspondent, said she had the biggest shock of her life when her 4-year-old son beckoned on her to behold the tragic scene of her husband.

Rekiya said, “I slept in the children’s room last night because my first child was ill and it was too late to take her to the hospital, since we all believed she would get better after some self-medications.

“I told my husband to go to bed that I will join him, only for me to have slept off in the children’s room.

“Earlier yesterday, my husband had complained bitterly that we may not be able to celebrate the ‘Ileya’ in a grand style as we intended. I told him all will be well, that a miracle could happen before morning. All through yesterday, he was moody,” she sobbed.

“A neighbour called me at about 5 p.m yesterday to say he saw my husband at abattoir, where they sell rams and cows. He said my husband was probably negotiating to buy one. He said he later saw him sitting on the floor with his hand on his chin. I called my husband to please come back home but he said if he didn’t buy the biggest ram, he would rather kill himself. I thought it was just a joke. He however, came home much later empty handed and we laughed over everything.

“I don’t know what to do,” the mother of six lamented. Where do I start from? How can I bear the shame that my husband killed himself because he couldn’t provide Sallah for his family? What kind of life is this?” Rekiya quizzed rhetorically.

When asked if her husband was perhaps depressed over something else, she said, “No way. I know my husband well enough. Nothing else was bothering him. He is a truck driver and in a week, he makes enough to cater for us and keeps in the bank but throughout last week, the owner of the trucks he drives, had issues with the police and all his trucks were confiscated.”

A neighbour, who simply identified himself as Ebuka, spoke with our correspondent saying, “Oga Wasiu sabi celebrate Sallah. If he no fit do this one, e mean say he go kill himself?

“Well, it is quite unfortunate,” Ebuka added, saying a doctor in the neighbourhood said he was already dead immediately residents rushed in to the scene after his wife raised an alarm.

When contacted, Chief Superintendent Nurudeen Sabo, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) at Kubwa Police Command, confirmed the incident and said, “Wonders shall never end.”

He, however, ordered that the corpse be deposited at a nearby hospital but Rekiya debunked saying there would be no need for that.

She said, “We are Muslims and we don’t keep dead bodies for too long. I have contacted our kinsmen in the resident and they are on their way.

As at press time, however, the kinsmen were yet to arrive the scene. The corpse was wrapped with white linen in a mat and deposited at the balcony.

http://dailypost.ng/2015/09/24/tragedy-man-hangs-self-over-lack-of-money-to-buy-sallah-ram/

Stupidity at it's peak................... Na by force to buy ram........Your mates dae kill Mosquitoes........anyways I'm FTC

Moral of the story....


Acute depression, no matter how periodic, can be fatal


Mental health is as important as physical health... Seek help where needed while you can

Poverty! People are suffering.......Even some civil servants could not buy ram for Sallah..This is the reason Saraki and co were stoned at the Eid ground today. People are seriously battling with poverty.

[size=15pt]I almost condemned the man but on a second thought i didnt. Who knows the history of the man's frustration. The non availability of goodies for feast may habe been the crown of his hardship and he decided to take a quick abominable exit.
After all their religion doesn't frown at loss of lives
When you have nothing to live for you have everything to die for.
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Good for our population the fewer the better

He has become the sallah ram for the family.

PDP has just blamed Buhari for this... why must we politicize everything?

that man na mumu......ram no be compulsory.....

[size=13pt]Not everyone who looks well and say it is well is really well[/size]


He was Ramnomaniacal, RIP to the dead

During his burial ceremony his family members go still chop the Ram

Chisos!! I thinks say na only we(christians) na eim dey do something crazy in order to celebrate christmas, but I guess am wrong!
*keeps face like kpormor and continue chewing his sallah meat*
Please does anyone have an idea of how I can soften this meat, cause e be like say na chewing gum I dey chop since and I no fit swallow ham!

Like seriously?

Foolishness....douglas on point fp tinx

Religion is the problem in Nigeria

i mean that's taking it to far.I don't know when the ram slaughter became compulsory. Anyway may God grant the repose of his soul.

Just 1gig Ram should be enough for the man.

Sorry....... Not this type of ram.

He sacrify himself in absence of ram . Mmmm

RIP man. But your family needs you more than the ram

Hmmn.
RIP

hmm

ThePeacemaker:
Stupidity at it's peak................... Na by force to buy ram........Your mates dae kill Mosquitoes........anyways I'm FTC

Lolzzzzzz abi now Double wahala for Dead body

Dead person dey chop Ram? He killed himself upon common Ram...

And Buhari rejected a Trailer load of Ram
....Irony of life....

Ehyah. Nawao because of ordinary salah meat. Nd u go visit ur neighbor way kil.
Sm ppl sha . The salah meat wey don even tire me self way i no fit chop again.
I Thnk God today wey b sallah, and i'v been paid my salary..

Picture me eating gala nw, u cn add that to ur gallery.

Nobdy fit sanction me, i dy for my sanctuary.

If to say my lapy get cam , i for show u my camry

stable electricity we mocking d wailers buhaha, thank God for givin us buhari.

wailers cn suck my dic, or remain glued to thr dictionary

female wailers mizmycoli et al on mission, cn cum mk i gv em missionary.

Alhamdulilah. Shope ti e.

Ordinary ram?

A

May Allah (SWT) save us

e no bad nah....E want rush go collect his virgin,after all he could not afford to lose from both ends

ko ni ba Olorun Ni ile ?

Oh what a tragedy, i guess the winch in her village had used her for their own sallah meat the previous night, the manifestation was what saw physically...

Decision made @ owners risk...

aww