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Alleged OAU Student Suicide: My sister was murdered – Brother

 

Timothy Damilola, brother of Mercy Olamide Afolaranmi, the 16-year old, 100L student of Microbiology at the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, has accused a roommate for the death of his sister.

Damilola, who took to his Facebook page said that  Afolaranmi didn’t commit suicide as being alleged but was murdered by the unidentified roommate.

According to him, the roommate was earlier in possession of the mobile phone of Afolaranmi on Wednesday, refusing anyone to speak with her, stating that she was asleep, before her death on Thursday.

“She has a roommate and they had issues this semester. They stopped cooking together which is an indication of the indifferences between them.

“She was the one who held her phone all through Wednesday and wouldn’t allow anyone speak to her all through the day, saying she is busy resting,” he said.

Damilola maintained that the deceased wouldn’t have killed herself having prepared for her seminar presentation.

Meanwhile, the brother of the deceased said a post mortem would be carried out on the remains of her sister today (Monday).

According to a online medium, Premium Times, Miss Afolaranmi took ‘Sniper’ days after she wrote on Facebook that she wanted to see God’s face and speak with Him face to face.

OAU’s Chief Security Officer, Babatunde Oyatokun, while announcing the death of the teenager last Thursday, said, “We got a call that one of our students took poison. We got to hospital to realise that she mixed rat poison. She gave us the contact of her parents but before they arrived, she already gave up due to the effect of the poison she took.”

A neighbour of the teenager, Bimpe Oni revealed that Mercy who lived off-campus at Sabo area of Ile-Ife, took “rat poison mixed with battery extract” due to poor grades.

She added that the deceased committed suicide because of “emotional pressure.”

Aisha, Miss Afolaranmi’s colleague in the Faculty of Science, said the deceased had ‘E’ in CHM101, a reportedly dreaded course for year one students in the science and technology related faculties.

She disclosed, “Mercy often isolated herself in class and looked depressed. She told me she had ‘E’ in CHM101 and has been going around unhappy before this incident.”

Meanwhile some of her Facebook friends pointed out that the incident could have been staged.

Chibuisi Operator Chelsea said, “I don’t still believe that she did it purposely, somebody might have pressured her into it.”

But for Rhoda James “Suicide or not, a destiny has been cut short.”

 

 

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