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Omotayo, an unemployed graduate of Mechanical Engineering from Ekiti
State University attempted to kill himself yesterday in Akwa Ibom
Staate due to frustration, Punch Reports.
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 Services asking prison
officials to shoot him dead or put him in prison where he could rot and
die. Continue...
A prison official who
craved anonymity said 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 counseled 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 "There is no state that I
have not gone to in search of a job in the past 10 years. I came to
Akwa Ibom because this is my last hope because of the stories of
Governor Godswill Akpabio and his uncommon transformation. 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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Omotayo, an unemployed graduate of Mechanical Engineering from Ekiti
State University attempted to kill himself yesterday in Akwa Ibom
Staate due to frustration, Punch Reports.
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 Services asking prison
officials to shoot him dead or put him in prison where he could rot and
die. Continue...
A prison official who
craved anonymity said 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 counseled 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 "There is no state that I
have not gone to in search of a job in the past 10 years. I came to
Akwa Ibom because this is my last hope because of the stories of
Governor Godswill Akpabio and his uncommon transformation. 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"