Men of
the Akwa Ibom police command yesterday stopped a suicide attempt by a
Mechanical Engineering graduate of Ekiti State University who identified
himself as Sunday Omotayo.
According
to eyewitness, Sunday jumped off a of a speeding Toyota Hiace bus, expecting to
be crushed to death by oncoming vehicles on the road leading to Ibom Plaza,
Uyo.
The
police said Sunday had earlier gone to the Prison Service asking warders to
either kill him or allow him rot in jail.
An
official at the prison who spoke anonymously said, “We just saw somebody, well
dressed and on tie with no look of mentally deranged running towards us. His
action forced us to become immediately alert with our weapons.
“The next
thing he said was ‘shoot me’, ‘shoot me’, ‘I want to die’, ‘I am tired of this
world.’ We were still facing him with our weapons when he scrambled towards us,
saying we should allow him to enter and die inside the prison.”
It was
after prison officials calmed him done and got him on a bus that from his
sitting jumped off the to attempt the failed suicide. Journalists at the
scenece heard Omotayo mumbling, “There is no state that I have not gone to in
search of job in the past 10 years, but none for me.
Speaking
with the press, Sunday lamented: “I came to Akwa Ibom State because this is my
last hope. I have heard stories of Governor Godswill Akpabio uncommon
transformation. But unfortunately, since I came, I discovered that even many
people from Akwa Ibom are also crying because of poverty and joblessness.
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