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| Late Mercy Olamide Afolaranmi |
A first year student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Mercy Olamide Afolaranmi, has committed suicide.
Mercy Afolaranmi, a 16 year old student of microbiology of the institution it was gathered from her neighbors and colleagues ate rat Poison over poor grade.
The Institution Chief security officer Babatunde Oyatokun disclosed that the Ekiti Born miss Afolaranmi took own life by eating rat Poison.
Oyatokun said the deceased who was alive when they got to hospital provided them with her parents contacts, but died before their arrival.
“We got a call that one of our students took poison,”
“We got to hospital to realise that she mixed rat poison. She gave us the contact of her parents but before they arrived, she already gave up due to the effect of the poison she took.”
A neighbour, Bimpe Oni, in an interview, said Miss Afolaranmi, who lived off-campus at Sabo area of Ile-Ife, died on Thursday, after she took “rat poison mixed with battery extract.”
Mrs. Oni said the late student committed suicide because of “emotional pressure.”
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| Late Mercy Afolaranmi. |
A student, Aisha, who was Miss Afolaranmi’s colleague in the Faculty of Science, said the deceased had ‘E’ in CHM101 (Chemistry for first year students), a reportedly dreaded course for year one students in the science and technology related faculties.
“Mercy often isolate herself in class and looked depressed,” said Aisha. “She told me she had ‘E’ in CHM101 and has been going around unhappy before this incident.”
Another student in the Faculty of Student, Opeyemi, said “she took poison because of result.”
The school’s Dean of Students’ Affairs, Isiaka Aransi, also confirmed the death of Miss Afolaranmi during a telephone conversation with our correspondent on Saturday.
“Although the reason and cause of her death is yet to be known, the division is aware of the death of Mercy,” she said.
“She was a student of department of Microbiology whose body has been taken to hospital for autopsy. When the result is out, the university community shall be communicated,” added Mr Aransi.
Before her death, on October 10, she posted on Facebook that: “Above all other things, I just wanna see God, see what He looks like, speak with Him face to face. I don’t wanna miss heaven. LORD HELP ME.”
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