For fear of facing the shame of being caught in a boy’s house, a
17-year-old SS2 student, Christiana Silas, decided to commit suicide by
taking a dose of insecticide in Karatudu area, Gonin Gora, Kaduna state,
last christmas.
Prior to the suicidal action, we gathered that
the teenager was caught in a boy’s room in the neighourhood after being
declared missing for hours.
The late girl allegedly disappeared from the house at about 9pm on Christmas day without disclosing her whereabouts to anyone.
Eyewitnesses
claimed that family members and residents searched round Karatudu and
Romi area for hours but all efforts proved futile.
On giving his
account of the tragic incident, Christiana’s father, Mr. Silas Wuyah,
said “when we asked one of the boys living in the compound opposite the
house, he said she was not there, but my brother’s wife said she didn’t
trust the boy because she wondered why he was staying outside up till
about 11pm.”
Adhering to her instincts, his brother’s wife ignored
the boy, went into his room and found the girl lying on his bed and
covered with blanket.
“So my family members who were already
confused and bitter over what happened rushed at the boy and started
beating him. In the process of beating him, my daughter went inside the
house and drank chemical used for killing termites.
She was found foaming and rolling on the floor inside the parlour,” the bereaved father confirmed.
She was immediately rushed to a hospital in Gonin Gora, but she did not make it.
“I
rushed back from Zaria to the hospital in Gonin Gora and it was
confirmed to me that she was dead. I am still imagining what her problem
could be that she has to kill herself. Maybe she was afraid of shame
that she was caught in a boy’s room,” he added.
When asked if
action would be taken against the boy in question, he said: “If I am to
drag any case with the boy, I will just be wasting my time, because my
daughter would not come back. The boy is part of the family, because he
always comes to my house and I do send him on errands.
Though I
know that my daughter killed herself after she left his room, I have
forgiven him. I know it is evil spirit that entered and asked her to
take the chemical and die so that she will not listen to what anybody
will say.”
Mr Silas claimed that the boy in question was not her
boyfriend, but neighbours insisted that the boy was Christiana’s boy
friend.
They also speculated that she probably killed herself to
cover up for the shame of being in a boy’s room at that hour, or that
perhaps she was pregnant and did not want to face the shame that might
come later.
Sympathizers have continued to throng the house of Mr.
Silas to console him over the death of his daughter who has since been
buried.
Until her death, the late Christana Silas was an SSS2 student of Government Day Secondary School, Romi.
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