How banker allegedly committed suicide in Lagos

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A female banker in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State, has allegedly killed herself in her work place.

The deceased, 32-year-old  who was identified as Amarachi Ugochukwu, was said to drank a substance identified as and harmful insecticide.

It was learnt that  the incident happened on Monday within the premises of the bank.

Witnesses said that the victim had around 1pm made her way into the restroom, where she drank the insecticide, unknown to her colleagues.

Other members of staff had started looking for her when the phone she left on her table kept ringing and she was not around to pick the calls.

Ugochukwu was later found dead inside the toilet with the bottle of insecticide and her suicide note.

In the suicide note trending online, the lady blamed hard economy for her decision to end her life, saying nothing was working well for her.

“Nothing is working in my life. My figures are low. My brain is clogged up. The economy is getting harder. My decisions are wrong. My mind is messed up. The future doesn’t seem bright at all. I see extreme hardship. I can’t bear the pain anymore,” she wrote in the suicide note.

Ugochukwu apologised to her parents and other members of her family in the suicide note.

 

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