17-year-girl attempt suicide over mother"s decision to stop her boyfriend

A 17-year old girl, Rahila Joshua, has attempted to commit suicide by swallowing rat poison, because her mother was against her friendship with her boyfriend, Yakubu Abu.

The incident, which happened around 1:30p.m, on Friday, at Akunza-Maigili in Agyaragu, Jenkwe Development Area of Nasarawa State, was said to have thrown the entire community into palpable fear, before she was rushed to the nearby clinic and later transferred to Police Clinic on Lafia-Jos road in Lafia, the state capital.

Informed family sources told the Nigerian Tribune, on Monday, that the victim’s mother, had always been warning her to stay away from Abu and even vowed not to allow her to marry him.

Investigations further revealed that the victim was beaten when her mother saw her with Abu hence she resorted into swallowing poisonous substance.

According to one of the witnesses, “she loves the guy and her mother was not in support of that friendship, but she insisted on marrying the boy. On that fateful day, her mother again beat her because of the guy, so she decided to swallow rat poison, which made her to become unconscious before she was rescued by the police.”

The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Ismaila Numan, who confirmed the incident at the police headquarters, added that she was rescued by Detective Benedict Patrick to Police Clinic and that part of the rat poison was recovered from her.

In a related development, a traffic warden, Peter Sunday alongside his wife, Catherine, might be charged to court by the state police command for alleged falsehood information to the police.

Credible police source confided to the Nigerian Tribune that the officer, who was residing at Millionaire quarters in Lafia Local Government Area of the state, rushed her wife to the Police Clinic on the pretext that his wife drank poisonous substance known as Ota-Piapia.

According to informed senior police source, the traffic warden attached to M.T.D Division, Lafia, went to B Division Police Station, Millionaire quarters at about 0200 hrs and reported that his wife wanted to commit suicide by taking poisonous substance.

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17-year-girl attempt suicide over mother"s decision to stop her boyfriend