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Nigerian Police Confirm Final-Year Abia University Student Committed Suicide From 3-Storey Building

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The Command's spokesman, Geoffrey Ogbonna, who confirmed the incident to SaharaReporters, said the victim, who was studying Electrical/Electronic Engineering, jumped from a three-storey building.

The Nigeria Police Force, Abia State Command has confirmed the death of Modestus Hyacinth Egbulefu, a 500-level student of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU), who committed suicide.

 

 

 

The Command's spokesman, Geoffrey Ogbonna, who confirmed the incident to SaharaReporters, said the victim, who was studying Electrical/Electronic Engineering, jumped from a three-storey building.

 

 

 

The final-year student was reported to have committed suicide after taking hard drugs suspected to be “Mkpulu mmiri".

 

 

 

The incident happened on August 7, at about 9:40 am at his lodge.

 

 

 

However, the PPRO said an investigation was ongoing to unravel the circumstances surrounding the incident.

 

 

 

He said, "The guy jumped from a three-storey building and died instantly. When they went to the house, they saw some substances suspected to be a drug known as 'mkpulu mmiri', presumably consumed before embarking on that journey,

 

“But all the same, investigation is in progress."