A jilted girl identified as Egoli (surname withheld) in
Asaba Community Delta State has allegedly committed suicide three years after
she introduced her fiancé to her parents.
According to Leadershipng, the incident, which occurred on
Monday, swept through the community when the news of her death hit the area.
It was gathered that Ego, as she is fondly called, allegedly
committed suicide when it became clear to her that her fiancé had wedded
another girl in Lagos.
Police public relations officer in the State, DSP Celestina
kalu who confirmed the incident , said the
girl, a graduate of economics from the university of Benin,
had been waiting for her man since three years in Asaba.
She said that the girl was found dead in her room the
following day after she and her parents had retired to sleep, with particles of
drugs found on her. Her corpse has been sent for autopsy.
Family members who spoke to their correspondent, one of
them, Mrs. Mabel Egbeide, said she had complained bitterly about the story of
the fiancé marrying another girl in Lagos but her fears were dismissed before
she took her life.
Sources said Ego’s fiancé, a Lagos based businessman, was
relieved of his job in Lagos after he had carried out introduction of the girl
before her parents and returned to Lagos where he had stayed all these while
before allegedly taking another girl for a wife.
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