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A staff of Globus Bank has reportedly committed suicide with sniper insecticide over what she described an hardship in a note.
TopNews reports that tragedy struck on Monday, January 8, 2024, as a lady simply called Amarachi Ugochukwu, a female marketing employee of a Globus Bank in Ikorodu, Lagos State, Nigeria’s commercial city, committed suicide within the premises of the bank.
It was gathered that the Globus Bank staff said to have drunk a sniper insecticide around 1pm when she made her way into the restroom. Other members of staff had started looking for her when the phone she left on her table kept ringing and she was not around to pick up the calls.
A police source revealed that the Globus Bank staff was later found dead inside the toilet with the bottle of insecticide and her suicide note. In the suicide note, the lady blamed the hard economy for her decision to end her life, saying nothing was working well for her.
The suicide note left behind by Amarachi Ugochukwu reads thus; “Nothing is working in my life. My figures are low. My brain is clogged up. The economy is getting harder. My decisions are wrong. My mind is messed up. The future doesn’t seem bright at all. I see extreme hardship. I can’t bear the pain anymore,” she wrote in the suicide note.
Ugochukwu apologized to her parents and other members of her family in the suicide note.
“I’m sorry mum, I’m sorry dad, I’m sorry Nene, Okwe, Toto, Nazor, Chuchu, Ifunanya,” she added.
The Globus Bank staff concluded by writing, “Dear Lord, have mercy on me!”
Globus Bank manager of the Globus Bank Ikorodu branch where Amarachi Ugochukwu had reportedly told the police that Ugochukwu locked herself up in the toilet to commit suicide, and she was found dead when the door was forced open.
It was gathered that a medical doctor examined Ugochukwu and confirmed that she was dead.
“The corpse was removed by the police and deposited at Ikorodu General Hospital for autopsy. The police in Lagos are investigating the incident,” the source added.
Contacted, the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, did not pick several calls made to his phone, neither did he reply a text sent to him.
