Anthony Iwuoma
Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, FUNAAB, was on Wednesday thrown into grief when Seyi Akinade, a 400 Level Zoology student, allegedly committed suicide.
He reportedly drank a liquid substance suspected to be sniper over $20,000 debt, about N7 million.
Nobody knows yet how the student came to owe that much but the deceased in a post on his Twitter handle, @Akinadeoluwa17, poured out his frustration, alleging harassment and torture by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS.
“And my life has been very shambled. I have receipts for everything I said on air in case anyone thinks I’m lying. Suicide has been the only thought on my mind every day. So, in case I hurt myself and anyone is curious as to why I did it,” some of the messages read.
“They didn’t say anything and they threatened to waste me if I didn’t stop asking silly questions. We were handcuffed like armed robbers all 17 of us, we were squeezed into a small car like goats to be slaughtered and from Abeokuta, we were taken to Ibara Police station.
“Immediately we got there, I decided to plead with who was in charge that I had a presentation in school the next day that they should please let me go early because as at that time, it was 12 in the midnight already. He said I will pay 200k. Ha! For what?
“I told him that I am not a fraudster but a forex trader. He went through my phone and my friend’s phone. Nothing was implicating there, except for the bank alerts and that money was not even mine. I told him they were investors’ money.
“I guess it’s goodbye now, no one heard my cry for justice and this had to happen, ha-ha, bye world.”
Toye Salawudeen, stepbrother of the deceased student, announced the tragic news on Twitter, saying the family only got to know about Akinlade’s troubles after his untimely death.
