LG chairman rescues two siblings who attempted suicide over father’s refusal to share property

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Two siblings who are indigenes of Nsukka town, headquarters of Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State have attempted suicide over their father’s refusal to give them a share of his property.

The youths, identified simply as Oscar and Divine, apparently frustrated over their father’s inability to yield to their demands, climbed the three storey building owned by their father and threatened to jump and kill themselves.

After getting to the rooftop of the mansion located beside Sadiq Hospital, along Aku road in Nsukka, the two male siblings kept on screaming on top of their voices, asking neighbours to prevail on their father to “settle” them.

Witnesses’ accounts revealed that the youngsters, who were aged between 25 and 30, had also threatened to set their father’s house ablaze if he refused to yield some of his property and money to them.

THE POINT learnt that it took the prompt intervention of the local government chairman of Nsukka, Jude Chinedu, to thwart the siblings’ shocking plan.

Chijinkem Ugwuanyi, a witness, revealed that the father of the duo seems rich and that he had refused to accede to their requests because of their attitudes which seem questionable.

He explained that the two brothers, after getting to the rooftop of their father’s building, used broken bottles to injure themselves till blood started gushing out of their bodies.

Ugwuanyi further disposed that due to the scorching sun that afternoon, the two brothers became exhausted on the rooftop to the extent that one of them got unconscious and the other was so weak that he couldn’t move.

“They are brothers and they climbed their father’s house and demanded to be settled or they will not come down and even if they do without settlement, they will burn down their father’s house. This is happening just beside Sadiq Hospital Nsukka, along Aku road on Friday.

“When people saw them on the rooftop, they became afraid. Their father was not perturbed and he didn’t even come outside to stop them.

“A team of rescuers led by the local government chairman of Nsukka, Jude Asogwa Chinedu, himself stormed their house. The chairman started begging them to come down but they refused and didn’t even answer anybody.

“After a while, people noticed blood stains on their bodies and blood was gushing out from different parts of their bodies. It took the intervention of courageous ones to devise a means and climb up only to notice both of them were already weak and bleeding; they used bottles to wound themselves on top of the roof.

“One of them had fainted on top of the roof and the second person was very weak and bleeding too. That was how they were overpowered and rescued from the building,” he said.

It was gathered that the rescue team rushed them to a private hospital for medical attention. However, one of them, Divine, was said to have absconded from the medical facility.

“When they got to the hospital and they were stabilised, one of them escaped from the hospital bed on Friday night. The one who abandoned is Divine, leaving his brother, Oscar. Oscar is still in the hospital as I am speaking with you, receiving treatment. He is being handcuffed to the bed at the moment,” the witness added.

Efforts to speak with the council boss did not yield results.