Amid the euphoria that greeted the successful take off of 13th West Africa University Games,
WAUG, at the University of
Ilorin, UNILORIN, Monday, the
sudden death of the husband
of a serving professor in the
institution through suicide hasthrown university community into mourning.
Sources in the university told us that the deceased, Olubunmi Olademo, who was married to a professor in the Religion Department of the university,
reportedly committed suicide Tuesday evening.
We reliably gathered that
Olademo reportedly hung
himself at a bush in the Tanke area of Ilorin, the state capital, following the alleged failure of his wife to give him money for
the completion of their family house.
Sources said the man
reportedly left their rented
apartment in Tanke after
allegedly dropping a suicide
note for his family, complaining about his wife’s alleged refusal to give him the said money he had earlier requested from her.
Before hanging himself, the
deceased was said to have
followed up on his suicide note by calling his wife on the telephone to inform her about his intention.
It was alleged that the wife,
who was said to have been
disturbed by her husband’s
threats to commit suicide,
however, reported the incident to the police in Tanke.
It was said that when Olademo did not come home same Tuesday night, a search party was organised to look for him without success, until one of his
daughters remembered that
she heard her father saying
that he was going to the site
of their uncompleted residential building at Oke-Odo area of Tanke.
The sources said it was at this juncture that the search party combed the area and discovered his lifeless body dangling from a tree where he hung himself.
The police were said have
initially arrested the deceased’s wife but released her on bail yesterday.
Olademo’s corpse was deposited at the mortuary of one of the hospitals in the town for autopsy.
The state police command Public Relations Officer, PPRO, DaboEzekiel confirmed the incident,
adding that investigations had already commenced.
Also reacting, Deputy Director, Information and Protocol of in the university, Dr. Mafouz
Adedimeji confirmed the suicide story, but noted that the deceased died outside the university environment.
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