YABATECH graduate commits suicide over damaged car debt

YABATECH graduate commits suicide over damaged car debt

A graduate of Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH), Oluwamuyiwa Olugbemileke, fondly called Spartacus by friends has taken his own life.

The 27 year old Electrical Engineering graduate who is scheduled to report for the compulsory National Youth Service Scheme (NYSC) in barely two weeks, reportedly took poison after he was blamed for damaging a car in a sachet water factory in Ojodu Berger, Lagos, where he worked.

According to PUNCH Metro, the Osogbo, Osun State indigene, was said to have become desperate to raise N50,000 to repair a damaged car when he bashed a vehicle on another one on  the  factory premises while trying to re-park.

In a suicide note he posted on Facebook, a few hours before the incident, he hinted that he was depressed.

He wrote, “When a man’s life is unstable, worried, downcast and destabilised, things he does right before will become wrong no matter the best he puts in. He loses focus and strength; he becomes unhappy and angry at everything even if he tries to wear a smiling face.

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“Thoughts of death will come in the scene. He keeps asking the question, ‘why me?’ He becomes helpless and even if he’s among people, he still feels lonely. Life can be truly unfair.

“Advice: Never let your ugly situations weigh you down. When you notice things are not going well, check yourself before it makes you feel worried.”

About an hour before he took the poison, he wrote another note on his Facebook wall at 10.16pm, asking his family to look after his mother.

“Please, help me stand by my mother. She’s the reason why I have lived this far. Thank you. To my loved ones,” it read.

He was buried on Saturday at the Atan Cemetery in Yaba, Lagos.

The deceased who is known to be reserved is said to be very hardworking which earned him the nickname Spartacus. But some of his friends were so disappointed that he didn’t mention what he was going through with someone.

Morountayo Akinyetun, the deceased friend condemned his decision, saying it betrayed his courage and hard work.

“I refuse to believe all that everyone is saying. Haha! You that always advised people to struggle. Ha! After all your up and down; the struggle from The Polytechnic, Ibadan, down to YABATECH. Why Spartacus? What message do you want to pass across to people?

“Your life affected people positively and that was why we gave you the nickname Spartacus. You didn’t care what life gave; you were a strong and courageous man….May God forgive you because what you have done is a great sin,” Akinyetun wrote on Facebook.

Another friend, with the alias Dolly Pee Pee, wrote, “Nigga, people call you Spartacus right from ND days at#the Polytechnic, Ibadan, because you were strong and courageous. What kind of silly thought came over you to commit suicide? I’m disappointed in you. Your decision weakened my day and everybody that knows you. Why didn’t you try and ask other people what they were going through maybe you could still give thanks to God for life? I’m sad and disappointed. You were a fake Spartacus.”

Martins Chika blamed Oluwagbemileke’s friends for not acting promptly after reading his post.

He said, “No one commented on this post until they heard he had died. If he had reasonable friends who know him too well, on seeing this post, they should have got in touch or go meet him to know what’s up. I am sure he would have shared his problems somehow with a close one.

“But these days, we are more busy chasing ghosts on the Internet than being friends to our friends. RIP, brother.”

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Olarinde Famous-Cole, confirmed the incident.

 

 

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