A vulcaniser, Muritala Afolabi, has been rescued by residents of Iree in Osun State after he allegedly set himself ablaze over domestic issues with wife.
The 30-year-old while speaking from his sick bed said he decided to commit suicide having been subjected to emotional torture and frustration by his wife.
He said, “I just thought of ending it. That Friday, I went into a filing station, bought fuel and went to a forest behind Baptist High School, Iree, and set myself ablaze.
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“I thought of what I was passing through and it made me to decide to end my life. Poverty and repeated curses of my wife made me to lose hope. I married the woman just in July this year.
“Some people heard me when fire was burning my body and rushed to the scene. They rescued me and brought me to hospital.”
When contacted by our correspondent on the phone, Muritala’s wife, Ifedolapo, denied cursing him.
She said, “I don’t know why he decided to kill himself. I am his wife. I am yet to have any child for him.”
Source: Punch
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