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18-yr-old UNIPORT student commits suicide
An 18-year-old student of University of Port Harcourt, Olaitan Gbadamosi, has been found dead in her apartment at Omuoko Community, Aluu Clan, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State, after the Oyo State-born undergraduate celebrated her matriculation two weeks ago.
However, while some say the 100 level student of Chemical Engineering committed suicide as a result of depression, others claimed she was poisoned.
Olaitan had posted a short video of herself crying and muttering some words a few days ago.
It was gathered that when her room was broken into two days after she was not seen by friends, a can of an insecticide was lying beside her remains.
A neighbour said Ola, as she popularly called, was last seen on Saturday evening. The neighbour who preferred anonymity said: “The incident is shocking to all of us in this compound. We are living in total shock.
“The last time I personally saw her was on Saturday evening. She returned with a cellophane bag in her hand. As usual, I called her Ola as everybody does. She came to me, I held her on the hand holding the cellophane bag and she immediately transferred it to the other hand.
“After we discussed for a while, she left me and went to her room on the first floor.”
The source revealed that Ola’s power generator was left on throughout the night, adding that “it was on till I went to Church. When I came back my attention did not go there again.
“It was yesterday(Monday), in the evening that her course mates came to look for her, saying she did not come to school. They were worried that she missed two tests and decided to come and find out why she could not make it to school.
“It was at this point that they went to her door and knocked for over 30 minutes. We used a ladder to get to her window, peeped in and saw her on the floor.
“When we broke into the room, we saw an insecticide close to her. We don’t know if she drank it. Nobody knows what happened to her.”
The source noted that policemen from Choba Police Division had picked the remains of the lady for investigations.
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