A final year medical student
of the Benue State University, BSU, Nicholas Idoko, apparently killed himself, yesterday,
in a motor accident after being expelled.
Sunday Vanguard learned that
the deceased was involved in the
accident along Abu King Shuluwa Road, Makurdi where, on top speed, he crashed a
Honda ‘Baby
Boy’ car, minutes
after he threatened to commit suicide following the news of his expulsio from
the school got to him.
He allegedly killed himself
and a pedestrian whom he ran over on the sidewalk of the road when his skidded
off the road and summersaulted
severally before ending across the sidewalk.
According to one of his
schoolmates who spoke on condition of anonymity, the student who, like other mates,
had spent ten years in the six-year medical
course due to non
accreditation of medical courses in the institution, was asked to quit the
school after failing a course he carried over.
“He was with his course mates when the news came to him
that he should leave the school because he failed a course he carried over in a
programme, after having spent ten years in the institution and also done his clinical,”the
mate said.
“On getting the news, he threatened to kill himself, saying
he would not be able to stand the shame of not making it out of school, that
the trauma would be
too much for him and his
parents.
“So when we had that he crashed with the car along Abu
King Shuluwa Road, most of us concluded that he had carried out the threat, and
we feel pained because the school management acted wrongly by expelling a
medical student that had spent ten years in an institution due to no fault of
his.
“Their decision must have forced the young man into talking
his own life as he threatened; and, if on the other hand the accident occurred
because his lost
control of the car, it could
be because he was unstable emotionally and, in that state, it was difficult to
control a car while on top speed”.
The death of the student
forced his mates numbering over 100 to barricade the ever busy Makurdi-Gboko highway
with a coffin and bonfire alleging that the student committed suicide as a result of his frustration after spending 10 years in the institution.
(vanguard)
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