Unijos Graduate Attempted Suicide For Being Jilted By Lover

A twenty-eight-year-old graduate of Computer Science from the University of Jos, identified as Henry Muplang and popularly known as ray was reported to have drank rat poison in a bid to commit suicide after his marriage proposal to his long-time girlfriend was rejected.

According to the source, rayray had over the weekend proposed to his fiance but was turned down during an outing that had friends and family members in attendance at a fast food joint in Jos.

Plateau State Police spokesperson, DSP Nansel Nansok who confirmed the incident said that ” Henry was found at a T-Junction in Jos by Police Patrol team while on routine duty” adding that the team found him in a very bad state around Tina Junction as he gasped for breaths around 10:30 pm in the night.

A senior police officer who led the team and identified as Kalu noted that the police while attempting to rescue him, recovered a suicide note which reads, “I felt heartbroken that I was rejected by someone, whom I loved and had given my heart to, over the years in the midst of a get together with my friends. I’d rather die and return to my mother’s earth”.

Henry’s younger sister identified as Sandra Muplang who also confirmed the incident said that her brother and the girl were lovers for over five years and had even gone ahead to proposed to her recently in the presence of their entire family but the whole episode ended up wrongly.

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It was alleged that the girl dumped her brother for her childhood friend who had been abroad for six years, but returned recently and proposed marriage to her.

Another family member of the victim, Evelyn also confirmed that the police recovered six sachets of rat poisons on the ground where her brother was found.

“My elder brother may have gone to buy the rat poisons and drank them because he was really emotional over the girl’s attitude,” she said.