New Reports Reveal what Could have Pushed Dr Orji Allwell into Commiting Suicide

New insight into the controversial suicide act committed by Dr. Allwell Orji, who took his own life by jumping into the Lagos lagoon last Sunday (read here), has been revealed.

The Nation reports that the 35-year-old medical doctor who works at the Papa Ajao branch of Mount Sinai Hospital, might have killed himself by jumping into the lagoon in Lagos due to mental instability.

A close colleague of the deceased doctor said that he (Orji) once confided in him that he was fed up with life and “wanted to end it all.”

”We were close and we often discussed about his life. He was a brilliant young man and he liked helping people. He was in the habit of taking part in free medical outreaches and he loved to study. Despite his condition, he was still studying further.

He ought to be rounding off his post-graduate studies which would have enabled him to become a consultant,” the young associate said.

According to information gathered, the deceased was a sickle cell anaemia carrier, the associate, who pleaded not to be named, said Orji sometimes had moments of mental instability.

”Sometimes it happened like a convulsion, and it even embarrassed him at his place of work while he was busy with a patient. Although the family did their best to manage the situation, there were times when he and some members of the family exchanged words because they taunted him for acting abnormally.
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His frustration heightened when his father died about four years ago and some family members believed the burden of his health condition contributed to the father’s death. These were some of the reasons he told me at that time that he wanted to end it all, but I tried to encourage him with the word of God.”

Furthermore, he explained that the late doctor’s mother, Chinyere Orji, had tried to get him a wife but it did not work out, adding that the amazing mum, a wealthy woman who owns a number of vehicles, also hired a driver for the doctor as a way of monitoring his movement to prevent him from taking his own life since he had exhibited such tendencies.

”The jeep (SUV) he was riding belongs to the mother and she also got him a driver to take him around. The mother tried to arrange marriage for him at a time but it did not work. The deceased’s younger brother is already married and his sister is also a medical doctor,” the source said.

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