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Security officials prevent jobless graduate from committing suicide
4/10/2014 11:13:00 AM
Omotayo who had gone to Akwa Ibom state to seek employment hoping that his services as a trained mechanical engineer would be needed having heard of the infrastructural development happening in the state, was greatly disappointed as he was not absorbed by any company in the state.
Frustrated by his inability to secure a job in the last ten years since he graduated from the university, Omotayo yesterday morning went to the Akwa Ibom state Prison Service asking prison officials to shoot him dead or put him in prison where he could rot there and die. Continue...
A prison official who craved anonymity says when Omotayo came into the prison premises looking well dressed with a tie on, he ran towards them asking that they shoot him that he is tired of living. The prison officers who immediately cocked their gun listened more to what he was saying.
"The next thing he said was 'shoot me, shoot me, I want to die, I am tired of this world' The prison official said.
Omotayo was later overpowered by the police, who counselled him and forced him into a bus heading towards the Ibom Plaza roundabout.
While in a speeding bus, Omotayo did the unthinkable. He deliberately jumped out of the bus along Wellington Bassey Way, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, expecting to be crushed to death by other vehicles. According to sources on the street which was close to the State Government house, it took a while for policemen to get him out of the road. He insisted that he must put an end to his poverty-stricken life by committing suicide
In an interview with Punch later, Omotayo said "I came with the hope that with what is going on in the state, getting a job would be easy so that I can begin to be a man. But since I came, I discovered that many people from Akwa Ibom are also crying because of poverty and joblessness"
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