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Two Offa polytechnic students swallow poison over handouts proceed, one dies

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A student of the Federal Polytechnic, Offa in Kwara State have reportedly committed suicide after he was embarrassed by one of his lecturers over proceeds of lecture handouts.

It was gathered that the National Diploma 1 student of the Civil Engineering Department, Ridwan Ajiboye, reportedly drank some quantity of insecticide and eventually died.

Ajiboye, who was the son of a traditional title holder in Iragbiji in the Boripe Local Government Area of Osun State, decided to end his life after he was allegedly embarrassed by one of his lecturers, who gave him some handouts to sell to his course mates.

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The Public Relations Officer, Students Union Government of the Polytechnic, Olayinka Owolabi, when contacted on the telephone on Saturday, confirmed the incident but said nobody knew why the deceased killed himself.

He said,

“Some of his neighbours heard his cry and rushed to his room where they met him gasping for air. He was taken to hospital but he eventually died.

“They said he took poisonous substance but we do not know what he took and nobody can say why he took the substance.”

He said the remains of the student had since been buried at his hometown, stating that his parents said they were not interested in investigating the circumstances that surrounded his death.

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Some days after Ajiboye’s death, another ND student of the Estate Management Department, Maryam Fasasi, reportedly attempted suicide.

Fasasi was also said to have drunk a popular insecticide, sniper, but she was rescued and revived at a hospital.

She was said to have been taken to hospital where she was treated and was discharged on Saturday.

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A student of the school told our correspondent that Maryam misplaced N45,000 which was the proceeds from handouts given to her to sell by one of her lecturers and she attempted to kill herself because of this.

The Polytechnic’s PRO, however, denied knowledge of Maryam’s case.

He added that the school was aware of Ajiboye’s case, saying the deceased was a brilliant student as shown by his academic records.

 

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