YABATECH undergraduate commits suicide day after announcing intention on Facebook

A day after making a controversial suicidal statement on Facebook informing his friends on the social media platform that he was unhappy and angry at everything, Oluwamuyiwa Oluwagbemileke, has carried out his threat.

Reports say the undergraduate of Yaba College of Technology, who while writing on his Facebook page appealed to people to stand by his mother committed suicide when he allegedly swallowed a poisonous substance, which led to his untimely death.

Oluwagbemileke Facebook message a day before he took his own life reads thus: “When man’s life is unstable, worried, downcast and destabilized, things he does right before, will become wrong, no matter the best he put. Such a person lost focus and strength, become unhappy and angry at everything even if he tries to wear a smiling face the thought of death will come in the scene.”

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However, his mother said she feels her son took his life after he damaged a car he used to work in a sachet water factory, to augment his school fees, and was pressured by his boss to repair it.

The deceased mother said; “When he was schooling in Lagos, he always complained to me of what he did to take care of himself in school. I also used to send the little I had to him. He was the person that financed himself through school. He was an easygoing person. I so much relied on him, that he would be the one that would take care of us and bring us out of poverty. But I have accepted my fate.”

A friend of the deceased wrote on Oluwagbemileke’s Facebook wall saying; “If you can’t stand by your mother, then who should? And if truly you love her, you wouldn’t take your life. May God forgive you of your sins and have mercy on you.”

 

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