A 400 level student of Federal University Kashere (FUK), Gombe State one Nalkur Zwalnan Lar of education department on Wednesday night hanged himself to death outside the school campus.
According to sources, the deceased committed the suicide at Santuraki quarters near MTN mast.
It was gathered that he killed himself for finding out that his girlfriend in the school married someone else during the seven months old strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) after the university reopened.
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Other issues he specifically mentioned in his leaked farewell letter was his inability to possess a smart phone of N50, 000 despite the millions of naira he alleged his father owns.
According to his acclaimed neighbours who leaked the farewell letter, the deceased described life as meaningless to him ‘if he could not have a phone of N50, 000 when his father is a multi millionaire’.
They said he also berated his erstwhile fiancee for jilting him and marrying another person without his knowledge and ascribed his decision to kill himself to her betrayal and his father’s failure to give him opportunity to possess items of luxury like expensive phones despite being rich.
However, they noted that the student allegedly pleaded with them not to open the letter until 20 minutes later and that they should deliver it to his parents.
“After twenty minutes, we read the content only for us to go to the police station and reported the situation. His lifeless body was brought to the compound around 11PM”. They revealed.
The head of information and protocol unit of the school Mr Suleyman Malami Ahmed confirmed the incident.
Also, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the state police command Mahid Mu’azu Abubakar confirmed the suicide.
He explained that when police in the area received report on the matter, they went to the scene, rushed the student to hospital but was ‘unfortunately certified dead’.
The PPRO said investigation was ongoing to ascertain the cause of the incident.
