The father of the deceased, Mr. Iwuanyanwu, who has been sick and bed-ridden for a long time confirmed the story and explained what actually led to his son taking his own life.
The body of late "Nnaah" as he's fondly called was left dangling on the rope for two days.
When asked why the dead body was not untied and left dangling on the rope, a man who spoke on the condition of anonymity said according to Umuaka custom and tradition, if anyone commits suicide, a lot of sacrifices were needed to be performed before bringing the dead body down and that such bodies cannot be deposited in the mortuary, adding that it is was not everyone that is allowed to touch the dead body.
A certain set of people in Igbo race are the only people who can touch the dead body. He added
It was also gathered that the deceased got a visa to travel to South Korea. Since ever he got the visa he has been on his father’s neck to sell the ONLY plot of land the family farms on. The father did not refuse but needed to seek the opinion of his first son, Emeka, also known as "Mehelo" who is currently living in Senegal.
However, late Nnaah was not patient as he quickly arranged for a buyer without his father’s knowledge and sold the plot of land at the sum of N1,000,000.00. When the buyer came to their house with cash and agreement, Nnaah's father refused to sign but pleaded with his visitors (buyer and witnesses) from his sick bed to go and come back on a later date to enable him sort the matter out with his first son, Emeka and another male child he had outside wedlock who has not formally returned to the family. This infuriated Nnaah and he started threatening to take his life after the buyer left with his money and the witnesses.
It was also learnt that late Nnaah has threatened to kill every respected member of Umuezikeoha community who dared advise him on that plot of land. Earlier before, Nnaah had beat up a member of the family, his mate and inflicted so many matchet cuts on him for advising him to look for any other means to source funds for his oversea trip since as last child, he was not customarily supposed to sell a land.
Many people from the community who spoke on the condition of anonymity said late Nnaah has been threatening to kill someone and then kill himself. Many expressed delight that he did not carry out the threat of killing someone before taking his own life.
They also hinted on the bad lifestyle of Nnaah who was in the habit of beating people up, abuse elders and always threaten to kill someone and kill himself.
To make it worse, the young man took his life right in front of his sick father. Mr. Iwuanyanwu looked helplessly as his own son tied the rope, carried a chair, stood on it, fixed the rope in his neck and finally committed suicide.
Mr. Iwuanyanwu is sick, bed-ridden and took weak to raise alarm for help.
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