Calabar: Only Son Commits Suicide For Love

Late Effiong Otu, he died for love

Friends and family members of a twenty one year a student of Maritime Academy Oron , Effiong Otu are at a loss why he took his life by hanging on a rope in his room on Thursday morning after he was jilted by his girl friend.

A family source who gave her name as Ann told CrossRiverWatch that Effiong was found hanging in his room at Diamond Hill a few minutes after he collected a rope from neighbors who became suspicious soon after he went inside his room with the rope wondering what he wanted to use it for.

According to the source, when his mother Grace Otu , a nurse at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital left the house at about 3 pm on the day of the incident the young man borrowed a rope and killed himself.

“The 10th of July was the 10th year anniversary of his father’s death in a car accident and after the anniversary and everyone had left the house and his mother also went out, he went to the neighbors and borrowed a rope which he took to his room and hung himself”

Ann said the neighbors became suspicious what he was doing in his room with the rope and decided to rush there but found the door to the room locked and before they could force the door open he had died” Our source said.

She said before he hung himself, he called one of his friends, Adu on phone requesting him to tell his girl friend, Blessing who works with UNICEM that she should now be happy that he has killed himself for her.

“Before his friend could rush to the house, the door had already been forced open by neighbors and Effiong’s body was hanging from the ceiling of the house”.

Our source said Effiong was an only son of the family and was given the late father’s name as a source of succor for the family but “He has again left us sad and angry with this thoughtless action”

Perhaps to give an inkling of his planned action , Effiong had posted on his face book page on the 6th of July the following message “It’s not about being engaged, married or in a relationship. It’s about being happy, safe, secured, relieved and feeling good. It’s about peaceful state of mind, it’s about sleeping at night without the fear of losing what you’ve got. It’s being yourself and not someone else, it’s about feeling LOVED, HAPPY, RESPECTED, UNDERSTOOD, CARED FOR and APPRECIATED.. !!Goodnight my beautiful people!!

Efforts to speak with Hogan Bassey, the Cross River State Police Public Relations Officer did not yield any success as his phone was switched off.

Mr. Obi Bisong the UNICEM Corporate Relations officer where Blessing is said to be working said he is not aware of any staff by that name “But sometimes some of these people may not be directly our staff but workers of some of our contractors”.

Effiong’s body has been removed and deposited at the mortuary of the General Hospital, Calabar