Man commits suicide over divorce

Bazua (U/E), July 31, GNA- Musah Yakubu, a 46-year-old farmer, who could not cope with the end of a 20-year-old marriage, committed suicide last Saturday at Bazua, near Bawku in the Upper East Region. Narrating the incident to the GNA, Louis Mbum Amali, a brother to Yakubu, said the victim and Safia Musah who were married 20 years ago and had five children, were farmers in Brosankro in the Brong Ahafo Region.

He said the couple occasionally visited home and had their misunderstanding amicably settled.

Amali said sometime in August last year, Safia threatened to leave her husband because she alleged he persistently abused her and all efforts by both families of the couple to settle their differences proved futile.

Amali said Yakubu was brought home in October last year because he was too depressed.

He said Yakubu's locally manufactured shot gun was seized and kept in their mothers' room because of his condition. Amali said last Saturday, when their mother left for farm, the deceased broke into her room, took the gun, entered his room and shot himself in the upper abdomen, dying instantly. Detective Inspector Augustus A Yirenkyi, Bawku District Crime Officer, confirmed the tragedy.

He said the deceased was in a supine position with gun shot wounds in the abdomen with his intestines gushing out, with a locally manufactured shot gun beside the body, when the police arrived at the scene.

Detective Inspector Yirenkyi said the body was sent to the hospital for post-mortem examination before it was released to the family for burial the same day. The GNA reported earlier barely a week ago that a 36-year-old unemployed man in the same village had committed suicide because, according to the deceased, his family members abused him for being jobless.