Man commits suicide in Rivers »

A 45- year -old trader in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, Chinedu Peter Ogwa has poisoned himself to death, alleging hardship and frustration among others.

The Nation learnt the incident occurred in Wokoma street mile 3 Diobu on Thursday night.

It was gathered the man had been acting strange few days before the incident,

The wife, Chidinma Ogwa, confirmed the story, adding the husband left a note, asking her and the children to forgive him.

She said he blamed his action on frustration, lack of business success, as well as inability to recover his debts among others.

The widow said, “It all started on the afternoon of Monday, August, 25, 2020, when he called me from where he was then to ask me what we are going to eat that night, I told him not to worry, that I had already prepared soup.

“After a while he came back and met me washing clothes outside, he stood beside me and began to laugh.

“I was like why are you laughing, he was still laughing, then he said to me ‘you did not know what I tried to do today’?

“I asked what did you tried to do and he said to me he was going to take rat poison so he could die and I shouted ‘rat poison, for what’?

“Then he told me that he was frustrated, people are owing him here and there, his business was not making any headway for 15 years he has been in business, nothing to show for it, yet on top of that, people are laying false accusation against him that he did this and did that.

“He continued and said, ‘today I had bought the poison and holding it in my hand to take I remembered you and my children, what people will say to you, how they will laugh at you and I and concluding that they have succeeded then I dropped it and walked away and rather decided to hand over everything to God’.

She went on: “And I agreed with him he took the best of decisions and told him not to mind people and their mouths. ‘This life is a battle, everybody has problems, it is not just us, please do not try that again’ and he promised never to do it again. Then he began to admire me and our children, and I laughed and we continued.”

“On Wednesday again, the man after dinner laid down on the bed and began to make some declaration that “I plead the blood of Jesus into my foundation, I plead the blood of Jesus into my foundation’ repeatedly.

“I got afraid because of the intensity of the declaration. I asked him what the matter was, he asked me not to worry and that it was a prayer point they prayed in the church he went to.

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