A
middle-aged commercial motorcyclist in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, identified
as Ekene Ugwuanyi, has reportedly committed suicide for losing his motorbike to
football betting.
The incident
was said to have occurred at a public viewing centre in Oko-Erin area of the
town after the return leg match between FC Barcelona of Spain and AS Roma of
Italy played in Italy.
Vanguard reliably gathered that the 25 -year-old
deceased reportedly bet with his motorcycle that Barcelona , having won 4-1 in
the first leg played at Nou Camp, Spain, would win the return leg and get
through to the semi-final of the championship. However, AS Roma won 3-0 ,
thereby, qualifying for the semi-final at the expense of Barcelona by virtue of
away goals rule and also making the deceased to lose the motorcycle to his
opponent, who smiled home with the bike from the viewing centre immediately
after the match.
The deceased , as gathered, became sad as the motorcycle, he
used for commercial purposes, was his main source of livelihood. Another source
also told Vanguard that the motorcycle with which he bet did not belong to him
that the motorbike was kept in his custody by a friend of his who travelled to
the village. The source added that the trauma made him to commit suicide by
hanging himself on a ceiling fan inside his room in Osere, outskirts of the
state capital, where he resided .
His younger brother, Okechuku, who lives
nearby, visited him the following morning only to discover his lifeless body
dangling from the ceiling fan and raised the alarm, which attracted the
neighbours. Okechukwu was said to have been initially shocked by his brother’s
door, which he met wide opened and called out to him several times without
response, before he eventually sighted his remains hanging from the ceiling
fan.
Vanguard
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