Police Prevent Man From Committing Suicide In Anambra

The Anambra State Police Command has saved a young man identified as Alozie John who attempted to commit suicide in the sate.

The 27-year-old John, who hails from Isielu local government area of Ebonyi State, attempted to end his life due to his inability to repay a N1.2 million loan taken for his business.

According to a statement made available to newsmen yesterday by the spokesman of the Anambra State Police Command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, John lives in Umunnachi area in Dunukofia local government area of Anambra State where he is operating a poultry business.

The police image-maker stated that John owed someone who supplied him poultry products the sum of N1.2 million, an amount he could not pay back, so he decided to terminate his life by drinking poisonous chemicals.

Ikenga stated that the command got to know about John’s evil intentions after he had drunk the poison and it started troubling him, so he decided to change his mind from committing suicide.

The police spokesman added that John later sent a WhatsApp chat to the state police command informing them how he had endangered his life.

He said that following the interception of John’s WhatsApp chat, the state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr Nnaghe Itam, promptly deployed some operatives who immediately rescued him and took him to a hospital where he received medical assistance.

The Police said the command has contacted John’s mother and she is currently assisting the command in taking care of her son and evaluating his condition at a facility where he is kept by the command.