Sunday Omotayo, an unemployed graduate of Mechanical Engineering from Ekiti State University attempted to kill himself yesterday in Akwa Ibom Staate due to frustration, Punch Reports.
Omotayo who had gone to Akwa Ibom state to
seek employment hoping that his services as a trained mechanical
engineer would be needed having heard of the infrastructural development
happening in the state, was greatly disappointed as he was not absorbed
by any company in the state.
Frustrated by his inability to secure a job in the last ten years since he graduated from the university, Omotayo
yesterday morning went to the Akwa Ibom State Prison Services asking prison officials to shoot him dead or put him in prison where he could
rot and die. Continue...
A prison official who craved anonymity said
when Omotayo came into the prison premises looking well dressed with a
tie on, he ran towards them asking that they shoot him that he is tired
of living. The prison officers who immediately cocked their gun,
listened more to what he was saying.
when Omotayo came into the prison premises looking well dressed with a
tie on, he ran towards them asking that they shoot him that he is tired
of living. The prison officers who immediately cocked their gun,
listened more to what he was saying.
"The next thing he said was
‘shoot me, shoot me, I want to die, I am tired of this world’ The prison official said.
Omotayo was
later overpowered by the police, who counseled him and forced him into a
bus heading towards the Ibom Plaza roundabout.
While in a speeding bus, Omotayo did the unthinkable. He deliberately jumped out of the bus along Wellington Bassey Way, Uyo, Akwa Ibom
State capital, expecting to be crushed to death by other vehicles. According to sources on the street which
was close to the State Government house, it took a while for policemen to get him out of the road. He insisted
that he must put an end to his poverty-stricken life by committing
suicide.
In an interview with Punch later, Omotayo said "There is no state that I have not gone to in search of a job in the
past 10 years. I came to Akwa Ibom because this is my last hope because
of the stories of Governor Godswill Akpabio and his uncommon
transformation. I came with
the hope that with what is going on in the state, getting a job would be
easy so that I can begin to be a man. But since I came, I discovered
that many people from Akwa Ibom are also crying because of poverty and
joblessness"
later overpowered by the police, who counseled him and forced him into a
bus heading towards the Ibom Plaza roundabout.
While in a speeding bus, Omotayo did the unthinkable. He deliberately jumped out of the bus along Wellington Bassey Way, Uyo, Akwa Ibom
State capital, expecting to be crushed to death by other vehicles. According to sources on the street which
was close to the State Government house, it took a while for policemen to get him out of the road. He insisted
that he must put an end to his poverty-stricken life by committing
suicide.
In an interview with Punch later, Omotayo said "There is no state that I have not gone to in search of a job in the
past 10 years. I came to Akwa Ibom because this is my last hope because
of the stories of Governor Godswill Akpabio and his uncommon
transformation. I came with
the hope that with what is going on in the state, getting a job would be
easy so that I can begin to be a man. But since I came, I discovered
that many people from Akwa Ibom are also crying because of poverty and
joblessness"
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