Ekondo Street neighbours in Calabar are incensed and perplexed as to how a fourteen-year-old could use a shoelace as a bail for suicide.
The child, named Donald, resides with his grandmother at 49 Ekondo Street in Calabar South. It was reported on Saturday afternoon that he attempted suicide by tying a shoelace around his neck.
One of the boy’s friends, Eyo, told Vanguard that the last time they saw or heard from the boy was on Saturday morning when he went to buy a meal known in the area as fufu.
“No one heard from him after he went to get the fufu until the grandmother contacted a carpenter to help him bring the youngster down from where he was leaning on the wall with a rope around his neck at about midday.
He claimed that when the carpenter inquired about what had transpired, the woman remained silent and the carpenter fled the property in fear.
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Before the carpenter hurried outside and sounded the alarm, no one heard any disturbance coming from the compound, so we all entered. The boy’s legs were on the ground, he was hanging his head from the noose with just a shoelace around his neck, and there was no table or other object for him to climb on. said Donald.
He claimed that after evaluating the situation, officers from the Atakpa Police Station left.
“When the woman was asked to take the boy down, she refused. The police did not touch the boy, and others who were called to take the boy down did not touch the body either.”
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Another street resident expressed confusion over how the youngster might have used a shoe lace to end his life.
“The boy could not have tied that little rope around his neck to end his life without severing the shoelace.”
He claimed to have seen the boy in his dreams and suffered from nightmares ever after the boy passed away.
We had a tight relationship, and ever since I saw him leaning against the wall with a rope around his neck on Saturday afternoon, I see him every night and he never stops pleading for justice. The youngster is an orphan, which is why all of these are taking place. His mother and father have passed away.
The gate was shut when Vanguard went to the 49 Ekondo Street residence, and neighbours claimed the residents had left for church.
