Peace Corps Officer Threatens Suicide Over Unpaid Allowance

Adamawa State Police Command has arrested the chief intelligence officer (CIO) of the Peace Corps, Zayyad El-Muhammad, for threatening to commit suicide over the withdrawal of his N20,000 monthly allowance.

The spokesperson of the police command, SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, disclosed this after interrogating the accused, who admitted attempting to take his life.

Nguroje said on June 22, 2024, the police command received a complaint that El-Muhammad threatened to hang themself over the withdrawal of his monthly allowance by his superior officers.

Nguroje said the CIO wrote on social media that Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, through the Ministry of Education, has supported the organisation financially but that their top officers have been diverting the money.

He said the suspect had alleged that the organisation’s top officers have been using the allowances given to them by Governor Fintiri to enrich themselves to the detriment of the personnel.

He said the officers had denied them their allowances, including their men at the LGAs, for about four years. He said he would try to see the education commissioner or that of the police command in Adamawa State, respectively. He would undoubtedly hang himself at the Damilu Roundabout if he failed to see them.

The image maker said after receiving the complainant, the commissioner of police, Morris Dankombo, deployed men of the command who apprehended him and denied him from perpetrating the heinous crime.

Nguroje vowed that the command would not in any way allow anybody to take their own life because it is a grave crime, assuring that the suspect will be charged in court over an alleged attempt to commit suicide.