The lifeless remains of a man was discovered dangling down a rope in his family house in Abia State.
The graduate of Abia State Polytechnic, Aba, who was awaiting the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, call up allegedly took his life on Sunday, September 13, 2015.
It was gathered that the deceased whose name is yet to be ascertained allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself with a rope when he returned from a mass service in one of the Catholic churches in the area.
A resident of Umuobe village, Ovom, Obingwa council area, where the incident took place, told Vanguard that the deceased had a good job, and wondered why he had to take his life.
“He returned from church on Sunday and nobody suspected that such a thing was going to happen. It was around 5pm that the bad news broke.
“The mother and the dad we learnt are all dead.
‘’I think he is the breadwinner of the family. It is very unfortunate. We learnt that he will be among the people that will be going for NYSC soon because he schooled in Abia poly,” he said.
A cross section of sympathizers who thronged the area explained that the incident was a sacrilege which made it compulsory for a ritual to be performed before his body could be touched and buried.
“So, it was on Monday that they (villagers) after performing the rituals took away his corpse from the room where it was lying,” they said.
The state Police Commissioner, CP Habila Joshak, confirmed the incident.
