Man Hangs Self over Lack of Money to Buy Sallah Ram

Residents of Gado-Nasko, Kubwa, Abuja, were Thursday,
thrown into mourning after 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.
Galaxy comms 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 they visited the scene of the incident, the deceased’s
wife, Rekiya Wasiu, 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, said:
“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.