Yemi Bamidele
13 January 2009
A landlord at Alexander, Apata area of Ibadan simply named as Mr. Popoola, has taken his own life following his inability to repay a bank loan totaling N2.7million. Popoola, aged 55, reportedly committed suicide in his bedroom over the weekend by blowing off his own head with a gun shortly after the early morning devotional prayer service he had with his family members.
According to reliable sources, the deceased had early in the morning of last Friday called his wife and the children for their usual family devotional service, where he personally led the other members of the household in prayers. At the end of the prayer session, however, he was said to have, in an unusual manner, directed the wife and children to quickly dress up and go for the business of the day. Immediately after the children had dressed up and departed for their different schools, he was said to have hurried the wife to go to her working place.
But our source disclosed that hardly had the wife descended from the stair-case than she heard a gun-shot from inside her husband's bedroom upstairs, a development which made her to rush up to ascertain what was wrong. It was a gory sight for the wife to behold when she opened the bedroom and found her husband in a pool of his own blood. The Police Public Relations Officer for the Oyo State Police Command, ASP Olabisi Okuwobi, told newsmen that she was yet to be briefed about the matter as at the time of filing in this report.
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