Hunter commitssuicide after wifejilted him

SYMPATHISERS were
moved to tears,
weekend as they
watched the lifeless
body of a 38-year old
man, Amidu Olajire, a
hunter who reportedly
killed himself after his
wife abandoned him
and their six children.
The corpse of the
hunter, who was said
to have committed
suicide by shooting
himself with a locally-
made gun was
discovered around
6.40am on Saturday
after unsuccessful
attempt by his mother
to pacify him over the
issue of his runaway
wife.
The incident happened
at Bakatari area of
Ibadan, in Ido Local
Government Area of
Oyo State. Some
moments after the
deceased reportedly
left his mother in
annoyance, he went
straight to his
uncompleted building
and pulled the trigger
of the Dane-gun.
It was the sound of the
gun that reportedly
attracted neighbours
but before they could
get to him, he was
dead, lying in his pool
of blood.
Speaking on the sad
incident, the Chairman,
Landlords' Association
of the area, Mr. Mathew
Bolaji, who described
the incident as
"shocking" wondered
why the hunter who
was popular in the
area could commit
suicide.
According to one of the
community leaders in
the area, Chief Mukaila
Adebayo, he was in his
house some minutes
before 7am when he
heard a booming
sound of a gun
followed by wailing of
people who later told
him the hunter had
shot himself dead.
Vanguard gathered
that a long local gun, a
bottle of gunpowder
and his mobile phone
were found at the
scene of the incident.
Already, policemen
from Apata Police
Station have taken the
remains of the hunter
to Adeoyo Hospital and
said preliminary
investigation
conducted revealed
that the man killed
himself out of
frustration.
The grandmother of
the deceased was
quoted as saying that
hunter left her around
6.30am after telling
her how his wife
deserted him with six
children.
She said: "After
expressing his
displeasure at the
attitude of his wife, I
tried to pacify him, not
to take laws into his
hand. He asked me to
take him to a doctor
for treatment but I told
him that we cannot get
any treatment from
the doctor because we
were still indebted to
the hospital.
He then left in
annoyance saying I
would not like what he
would do after now. All
that I heard was that
he had killed himself."