Graphic Photo: Heartbreaking Story of how a Childless Housewife Committed Suicide in Anambra
Lovina Odo, a 38-year-old petty trader and a childless housewife, has committed suicide by hanging herself with a rope tied to a ceiling fan at her home in Umusiome village, Nkpor-agu near Onitsha in Anambra State.
The incident occurred on March 28 at about 5 p.m.
According to preliminary investigations by the police, the deceased could have committed suicide due to the fact that she had been barren in her eight years of marriage, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
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Giving details of what happened, Okechukwu Odo, husband of the deceased, said he and Lovina had been married for over eight years and had no child, adding that he returned home from work at about 6:30 p.m. and met sympathisers around his one-room apartment.
Odo, a car washer, said he and his wife had no quarrel before he left for work on the day of the shocking incident.
”I left home for work that morning after taking my breakfast; she had asked that I buy a tuber of yam for dinner when I return. When I returned, I saw people gathered around my apartment only to be told that my wife had killed herself,” he narrated.
Confirming the incident, the Divisional Police Officer of Ogidi community, Hassan Musa, said the deceased did not leave a suicide note before the sad act.
”No suicide note was seen around her but preliminary investigation reveals that she might have committed suicide because she had no child,” he said.
Musa added that the corpse of the deceased has been removed and deposited at the Mortuary of Iyienu Mission Hospital.
Photo credit: NAN
Awwww this is sad. She didn’t have to kill herself. she must have been very depressed.
SAD………. but why? Barrenness is not a option to commit suicide, God is still in the business to give her children…..May her soul RIP
This is so sad
really sad