Free Press

The Free Press in a front-page lead story reports that a 20-year-old son of a medical doctor at the Koforidua St. Joseph?s Catholic hospital in the Eastern Region, last Thursday, May 27, decided to take his own life because he failed twice to score grades which would enable him to enter the university to study medicine the profession dear to his heart.

The story says for Victor Nartey, former student of Pope John Senior Secondary School at Koforidua, his inability to get the requirements to write the pre-university entrance examination, after two sittings, even though he could enter any other tertiary institution, was enough justification to shoot himself through the heart.

According to the Free Press, to Nartey, aggregate 25 each for the two sittings, was much of a disgrace so the best way out was to commit suicide. The paper says the body has since been deposited at the Koforidua Central Hospital while police investigations into the incident continue. Quoting family sources,

Nartey completed senior secondary school in 1997 with aggregate 25. and parental pressure had forced him to do medicine but he did not qualify with the aggregate. His parents, the paper says, insisted that he should sit again in 1998 to better his grades Again, he had aggregate 25.