A MARRIED MAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE BECAUSE HE WAS REJECTED BY HIS TEENAGER LOVER

Tragedy was averted in Yenogoa, the Bayelsa State capital, when a 49-year-old married man was stopped from taking his own life over rejection of his love overtures by an 18-year-old girl.
The incident occurred along the Bay Bridge area of Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state.
Leadership reports that the troubled man, Edaiken, who is married and has two children, was reported to have invested a huge amount of money and energy into the relationship with the girl.

 

The issue came to a head after the 18-year-old girl identified as Favour, openly rejected his sex overtures and deceived him into believing that it will be sex after marriage.
But he was shocked to learn that another married man had been sleeping with the girl on a regular basis.
Edaiken, according to neighbors along the Bay Bridge area, became emotionally depressed and began the plot to commit suicide within the compound.
Speaking on the development, the wife of the troubled man, Florence, confessed that her husband woke her up in the night complaining that all the people he loved did not reciprocate his love.

 

According to her, ”he was in bad mood throughout and he asked me to take care of their two children if he died”.
She said “I was alarmed when he came in complaining that all the people he loved did not reciprocate his love. I told him that I love him, but he said he was not referring to me, but one Favour whom he had spent so much money for and yet refused to return his gesture with love. Early in the morning, as he stood up from the bed, I tried to hold him back but he broke loose and went outside.
“Even then, I didn’t know that he had already got a rope and some chairs where he intended to hang himself”.
It was gathered that while the wife had gone outside the house to buy recharge card for her phone and contact his immediate family member, the troubled husband hung a rope around his neck and his legs dangling in the air.
“I immediately raised the alarm and neighbors came around and used cutlass to cut off the rope”, the wife stated.
Some of his neighbours and sympathizers expressed disappointment over the incident.
However, the desperate man insisted on hanging himself unless the girl is persuaded to openly confess her love to him.
Favour was then called in; she reportedly obliged and even promised to marry Edaiken.