Questions raised over 18-year-old UNIPORT student who allegedly committed suicide

A year-one Chemical Engineering student of the University of Port Harcourt identified as Olaitan Gbadamosi is reportedly dead in what many have alleged was a suicide act.

The incident has raised a number of questions among her friends and colleagues who feel there is more to the incident than meets the eyes.

18-year-old Olaitan was found dead in her room in Aluu, one of the neighbouring communities of UNIPORT with a bottle of Sniper beside her.

Some reports have it that the victim committed suicide, following alleged depression, while some say she may have been poisoned.

In a short video currently trending online, Olaitan was seen sobbing and making inaudible comments.

Narrating the incident to newsmen, a neighbour who pleaded anonymity said:

“The incident is shocking to all of us in this compound. We are living in total shock.

“The last time I personally saw her was on Saturday evening. She returned with a cellophane bag in his hand.

“As usual, I called her Ola as everybody do call her. She came to me, I held her on the hand she had the cellophane bag, she immediately transferred it to the left hand.

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“After we discussed for a while, she left me and went to her room, on the first floor. The source revealed that Ola’s generator was left on throughout the night, adding that nobody had left the compound to church.

“Her generator was on throughout the night. It was until I went to Church. When I came back my attention did not go there again.

“It was yesterday, Monday, in the evening that her course mates came to look for her that she did not come to school.

“They were worried that she missed two tests and decided to come and find out why she could not make it to school.

“It was at this point that they went to her door and knocked for over 30 minutes. We had to take a ladder and peeped through her window and saw her on the floor.

“When we broke into the room, we saw Sniper (an insecticide) close to her. We don’t know if she drank it. Nobody knows what happened to her,” he said.

Her body has since been evacuated by Choba Police Division for investigations.

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