Residents of Kwanan Bola Street in
Badarawa a suburb of Kaduna metropolis were yesterday thrown into
confusion when a 15-year-old girl committed suicide allegedly because
her father scolded her. It was gathered that the deceased drank a
poisonous substance. A source told Greenwich news that the girl after
taking the substance became unconscious. It was further gathered that
when she was discovered, she was given liquid milk and palm oil to “slow
down the effect of the poison in her body” before she was rushed to the
hospital in the area where she was pronounced dead.
Our correspondent who visited the deceased’s home, reports that
sympathizers were seen trooping to the house to console her parents.
A source said trouble started when the
father of the deceased, who is a police officer, had an argument with
the deceased over an issue.
“I only talked to her about an issue
which I do not like. I told her that I was not happy with her behaviour.
I said I do not like seeing boys around her, that is all we talked
about. I never raised my hand to beat her. I liked her because she was a
good girl. But look at what she did to herself. When I was leaving the
house this morning, she was lying down in the sitting room, and she
apologized for offending me. I told her I was not happy with her recent
behaviour, and she told me to forgive her. I was at the office when I
received a phone call that I should come home immediately that my
daughter has been rushed to Garkuwa hospital. Before I got there, I
received another call that I should come straight home, where I met her
lifeless body,” he said.
He said initially, the deceased was not
living with him, but that she visited him a few years back and she asked
him to secure admission for her in a secondary school in the area.
“It was when she visited us that she
told me to get her admission to proceed with her studies here in
Badarawa. She had just completed her junior secondary school then. I
just don’t know why she did what she did,” he said.
The mother of the deceased refused to
speak to the press, saying they have left everything to God.
When contacted, the Police Public
Relations Officer in the state, DSP Aminu Lawan, confirmed the incident,
saying the father of the girl had been invited for questioning.
“We have invited the father for
questioning because it seems there was a problem between him and his
daughter before she died”, he said.
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