Married Man Attempts Suicide Over Girlfriend

A 40-year-old man, Ediekan on Friday morning, July 25 at Bay Bridge road, Yenagoa attempted to commit suicide over his girlfriend’s refusal to have sexual intercourse with him.

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Apparently the married father of two was said to have been in a long relationship with his girlfriend, one Favour who lives within the same neighborhood had been spending money on her just to woo her to go to bed with him.

But Favour who was not moved by his spendings, rather than succumb to his pressure, 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 depressed 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. According to her,he was such in a 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 Favour 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 became 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.”

Meanwhile some of his neighbours expressed disappointment over the incident but Ediekan who was unremorseful insisted that he would commit 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, people would take care of his children.

The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Ekeki on hearing the news deployed some of his men to the scene to investigate the incident, The Sun learnt.

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