Mercy Afolaranmi, a 16-year recent 100-level student of the department of biology at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has committed suicide.
According to the school’s Chief Security Officer, Babatunde Oyatokun, Miss Afolaranmi, poisoned herself.
Students and a neighbour near to the deceased conjointly aforementioned she killed herself thanks to poor grade.
“We got a decision that one amongst our students took poison,” Mr. Oyatokun aforementioned. “We have to be compelled to hospital to grasp that she mixed rat poison. She gave us the contact of her folks however before they arrived, she already gave up thanks to the impact of the poison she took.”
According to Bimpe oni, a neighbour to the deseased, in an interview with journalists, Miss Afolaranmi, who stays off-campus at Sabo area of Ile-Ife, gave up the ghost on Thursday , when she took “rat poison mixed with battery extract.”
Mrs. Oni aforementioned the late student committed suicide attributable to “emotional pressure.”
A student, Aisha, who was Miss Afolaranmi’s colleague within the college of Science, aforementioned the deceased had ‘E’ in CHM101 (Chemistry for initial year students), a reportedly alarming course for year one students within the science and technology connected colleges.
“Mercy typically isolated herself at school and looked depressed,” aforementioned Aisha. “She told me she had ‘E’ in CHM101 and has been going around sad before this incident.”
Another student within the college of Student, Opeyemi, aforementioned “she took poison attributable to result.”
The school’s Dean of Students’ Affairs, Isiaka Aransi, conjointly confirmed the death of Miss Afolaranmi throughout a conversation these days.
“Although the explanation and reason for her death is however to be glorious, the division is conscious of the death of Mercy,” she said.
“She was a student of department of biology whose body has been taken to hospital for autopsy. once the result’s out, the university community shall be communicated,” said Mr Aransi.
Before her death, on October 10th, she denote on Facebook that: “Above all alternative things, I simply wanna see God, see what He seems like, speak with Him face to face. I don’t wanna miss heaven. LORD help me.”
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