The body of a 26-year-old National
Youth Service Corp, NYSC, member, identified as Ernest, was, Wednesday,
recovered from his one room apartment after he reportedly took a poisonous
substance.
Reports indicated that the young
man, who was in love with a fellow NYSC member, Chioma Okewuru, went berserk
when the girl came back from her village over the weekend with a ring from a
man she had promised to marry.
Ernest, who is from Edo State and a
graduate of the University of Benin, was posted to Cross River State in
October, where he met and fell in love with Chioma, and both were serving in
Redemption Secondary School, Ofombogha 1 in Obubra Local Government Area of
Cross Rivers State.
Mr. Noah Ntuen, Acting Divisional
Police Officer for Obubra told Vanguard on phone: “The girl had told the guy
that she would not marry him, but that they could be friends. So when she came
back from home last weekend and showed him the ring her husband-to-be gave her,
the young man became furious.
“On Wednesday, the situation became
worse and at about 7pm, he locked himself in the room and took some poisonous
substances.”
A source in the school told
Vanguard: “They met at the NYSC Orientation Camp at Abrekpe-Ebokpo and as luck
would have it, they were both posted to the same school where they had a
relationship going.
“He had the
hope the whole thing would end in marriage, but Chioma already had another
person she wants to marry.”
Ntuen said
the body had been deposited in the mortuary of Obubra General Hospital, while
Chioma is with the police, where investigations on the circumstances
surrounding the tragic death are in progress.
