Tragedy struck a family in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun
State, yesterday, when a 25-year-old
housewife, Sakirat Abdullahi, allegedly
committed suicide. Sakirat, a mother of a five-
year-old boy, lived at 33, Ereko Street.
She was said to have drunk a mixture of shaving
powder belonging to her husband which she put in a
pap meant for dinner, late Sunday evening.
The widower, Abdullahi, a driver and a member of the
National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW),
Epe Motor Park, was not at home at the time of the
incident.
According to him, he left Sakirat at home, hale and
hearty before she fell into coma after drinking the
poison.
Her husband, who was in terrible shock yesterday
when he spoke to Daily Sun, managed to say: "I met
her early this morning (yesterday) dead in our room.
I forced the door opened because she didn't open
when I knocked,'' he said.
A relation of the couple who identified himself as
Isiaka, amid tears, wondered why her neighbours at
the other building did not come to her aid when she
was groaning in pains even when the window of her
room was open for anyone to hear her cries.
Sakirat's friend, who spoke on the condition of
anonymity, said the deceased vomited in a bucket
until she became unconscious.
Another family friend, Tunde, who claimed to be very
close to the couple, said there was no quarrel or
misunderstanding between them, noting that it is
only God that can really explain the mystery
surrounding the woman's death.
The Chief Medical Director (CMD), Ijebu-Ode General
Hospital, Dr. Wellington Ogunsanya, said
consumption of shaving powder could not result into
instant death as in the case of the deceased.
According to him, it will take three or more days in
some cases, before such development, if not treated,
could result into death.
Dr. Ogunsanya said that there might have been other
factors that resulted into the death.
(The Sun)
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