A 300-level microbiology student of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), Ilorin, Kwara State, Hameeda Sanni, has committed suicide over a N500,000 debt.
It was gathered that the 20-year-old student took her own life by drinking the dangerous and poisonous product, Sniper.
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According to sources, Hameeda ran into debt through loan apps after her Facebook boyfriend scammed her to the tune of N500,000.
Sources in the victim’s hostel located on the university campus said Hameeda took her own life on Monday, following persistent harassment from the loan apps she was indebted to.
“Hameeda’s roommates reportedly saw her writhing in pain in her bed in the early hours of Monday after she had taken Sniper,” a source said in Ilorin on Wednesday.
The source added that the hostel porter, along with others, quickly mobilised to get urgent medical attention for her but was pronounced ‘Brought In Dead’ on getting to the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH).
“She had threatened to commit suicide since last week when operators of the loan apps resorted to sending demeaning text messages to her, her friends and relatives, and also her parents.
“She first became enmeshed in debt around April 2023, when she was said to have outstanding loans from the apps in the region of N270,000. At that point, her parents and siblings had gotten involved with the siblings, offsetting her indebtedness even without the knowledge of her parents.
“Hameeda reportedly told her dad then that she had borrowed the money to stake in online sports betting apps and that she lost all the money.
“Recently again, it was discovered that the late Hameeda could not account for a sum of money said to be over N400,000 kept in her care by her mother. Hameeda had said that she would lend out the money to a friend whose mother is being treated for cancer at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife, Osun State.
“Upon the assertion, her family was said to have asked Hameeda for the identity of the borrower, a request to which she replied that she had lost contact with the borrower, who had since disappeared into thin air.
“On Sunday, her siblings were said to have asked her to produce the transaction receipt by which she used to transfer money to the borrower, a request she hadn’t conveniently responded to until the time of her death,” the source stated.
When contacted, the spokesperson of Kwara State Police Command, Okasanmi Ajayi, requested time to gather information on the incident from the divisional police officer (DPO) in the Tanke area of the metropolis.