A 16-year old 100-level student of
Microbiology at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Mercy Afolaranmi, has
committed suicide.
Mercy Afolaranmi poisoned herself days
after she wrote on Facebook that she wanted to see God’s face and speak with
him face to face. She died after drinking “rat poison mixed with battery
extract” last Thursday.
Fellow students and a neighbour
added that Mercy killed herself due to poor grade.
Speaking to PREMIUM
TIMES, Obafemi Awolowo University’s Chief Security Officer, Babatunde
Oyatokun, said:
“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 with PREMIUM TIMES, 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.”
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 isolated
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.”
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