On Saturday, a middle-aged woman known as Mama Dada lit herself on fire in her rented residence in the Oke-Keesi, Itoko neighbourhood of Abeokuta, Ogun State.
According to Vanguard, the deceased committed suicide because she couldn’t repay a debt she received from a microfinance institution (name withheld).
Both the building and the woman’s remains were completely destroyed by fire.
According to a source, Rasheed Aina, a local resident who lives close to the deceased’s home, cited the reason for the woman’s suicide as her inability to pay back a microfinance bank debt.
“From the information, I gathered from her neighbour, the loan was to the tune of N70,000.”
On his part, the Secretary of the Community Development Association in the area, Mr Babawale, said:
“The woman was owing the ‘Gbomu le lantern’ the sum of N70,000. Because she could not meet up with the repayment, she then sent her last born to buy fuel and used style to discharge the small boy. She locked herself up inside the room and wet everywhere with petrol including herself and set the whole place on fire.”
Meanwhile, the Ogun State Fire Service has now deposited her body at the state Medical Hospital in Ijaye.
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