Man commits suicide over family dispute in Yola

From Umar Dankano,Yola.

The residents of famous Garba Tarfa street in Yola,state capital of Adamawa were thrown in mourning as a result of tragic suicide committed by one Musa Fedelis, 23 years old due to unabated family dispute.
Reports from the area indicated that, the deceased on Tuesday had a slight disagreement with his family in which he physically assaulted his biological mother to the point of causing injury of dislocation on her left hand, a development that led his siblings threatening to leave the house for him.
On sensing danger, the deceased became more dangerous threatening that one of the family members must visit heaven on that faithful day, then zoomed in to his room and lucked himself up and committed suicide.
Musa's lifeless body was found dangling in his room after forcing the door open by family members and his friends in the area.
Some of the neighbours interviewed at the scene described the episode as unfortunate, lamenting that Musa Fedelis was a drunkard that always foment trouble in the community.
According to them, on the day Musa committed suicide, he attacked his mother causing her to sustain fracture on her upper left limb.
"The man was restless throughout Tuesday, he fought everybody that came to their house.
"He wounded his mother by dislocating her left hand," they narrated.
A friend and immediate neighbour to late Fedelis, Innocent Henry explained that "Already, we have taken the woman to native doctor who is working on her bone."
Innocent further added that the deceased behaviour made the family to propose deserting the house.
According to him, this situation might have forced him into drug and eventual suicide.
Uncle to the late Musa, Ali Hassan said that the guy had been behaving strangely, telling all his family members that one of them would pass away this week.
"I am uncle to the deceased; he has been making negative confessions especially a day to the ill fated day. He told everyone that someone will die tomorrow within his family member.
"He was generator mechanic apprentice; we noticed the strange behavior without foreknowledge that he was going to commits suicide," he explained.
Meanwhile, a senior sister to the deceased who preferred anonymity said the family was shocked to note that a pregnant lady suddenly surfaced in their compound, claiming that she was impregnated by Musa. Contacted for confirmation, spokesman of Adamawa state Police Command, S.P Othman Abubakar said he heard of the news in town but was yet to see any official correspondence to that effect.

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