Graduate Relocates to Akwa Ibom For Greener Pastures, Attempts Suicide After Disappointment (PICTURED)

An Ekiti State University's unemployed graduate, apparently at his wit’s end, attempted to commit suicide along Wellington Bassey Way yesterday, Wednesday, April 9, 2014.

The Engineering graduate who identified himself as Sunday Omotayo, jumped out of a speeding Toyota Hiace bus, expecting to be crushed to death by oncoming vehicles on the road leading to Ibom Plaza, Uyo.

According to the police, Omotayo had earlier gone to the Prison Service asking warders to either kill him or allow him rot in jail.

An official at the prison who spoke anonymously said,

“We just saw somebody, well dressed and on tie with no look of mentally deranged running towards us. His action forced us to become immediately alert with our weapons.

“The next thing he said was ‘shoot me’, ‘shoot me’, ‘I want to die’, ‘I am tired of this world.’ We were still facing him with our weapons when he scrambled towards us, saying we should allow him to enter and die inside the prison.”

It was after prison officials calmed him done and got him on a bus that from his sitting jumped off the to attempt the failed suicide.

Omotayo confessed to having tried to commit suicide due to the economic hardship he was facing after trying severally without luck to land an employment opportunity.

Omotayo confessed to traveling to Akwa Ibom in search of a job after he heard of the uncommon transformation slogan of the Governor Godswill Akpabio administration. However he realized some people there where in a worst state than him.

He said, “There is no state that I have not gone to in search of a job in the past 10 years. I came to Akwa Ibom because this is my last hope because of the stories of Governor Godswill Akpabio and his uncommon transformation.

“I came with the hope that with what is going on in the state, getting a job would be easy so that I can begin to be a man. But since I came, I discovered that many people from Akwa Ibom are also crying because of poverty and joblessness.”