Jobless Graduate Jumps Out Of Moving Bus, Attempts Suicide In Akwa Ibom [Photo]

Men of the Akwa Ibom police command yesterday stopped a
suicide attempt by a Mechanical Engineering graduate of
Ekiti State University who identified self as Sunday
Omotayo.
According to eyewitness, Sunday jumped off a of a speeding
Toyota Hiace bus, expecting to be crushed to death by
oncoming vehicles on the road leading to Ibom Plaza, Uyo.
The police said Sunday 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. Journalists at the scene heard Omotayo
mumbling, “There is no state that I have not gone to in
search of job in the past 10 years, but none for me.
Speaking with the press, Sunday lamented: “I came to
Akwa Ibom State because this is my last hope. I have heard
stories of Governor Godswill Akpabio uncommon
transformation. But unfortunately, since I came, I
discovered that even many people from Akwa Ibom are also
crying because of poverty and joblessness.”