Topic: jilted lover girl commits suicide

For residents of Ekumtak Mbube, Ogoja Local Government Area in Cross River State, the 2009 Valentine’s Day celebration would taste sour, as love has claimed a life and brought sorrow and tears to them. The community is currently in turmoil, as a young, who was allegedly jilted recently by her boyfriend, has committed suicide.

Saturday Sun gathered that the 18-year old girl, identified as Queen, was seen hanging from a tree behind her father’s residence, at the Ekumtak community, with her feet barely touching the ground.

Although Queen allegedly did not leave any suicide note, some of her school friends and confidants, who spoke with our correspondent, said she became heart broken in recent times, saying she was tired, as her plan to celebrate the Valentine’s Day with her boyfriend had been shattered. She said that her boyfriend jilted him and started dating a new girlfriend.

Some of the girl’s schoolmates, who claimed they were instructed by the principal of the school not to speak on the matter, said trouble between Queen and her estranged boyfriend began when the boy started avoiding her. Their friends that made effort to resolve their differences, but these yielded no result, with the boy insisting that it was over.

Queen, who was said to be a final year student of the Mbube East Secondary School, allegedly confided in some of her friends that she was going to terminate her life over the crashed romance.
According to one of the female student, “Queen once jokingly said she would not stay alive on the Valentine’s Day to suffer the embarrassment of seeing her boyfriend enjoy the valentine with another girlfriend.”

One of them, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: “our Principal is a no-nonsense man. He has warned us not to mention the name of her boyfriend, otherwise we will be in trouble.”
Queen’s father (name withheld) said the girl allegedly left home for school on the fateful day, hale and hearty to complete the process of her registration for the May/June 2009 West African School Certificate Examination.

“She came back from school and disappeared from the house after dropping her school bag,” he said.
According to him, Queen left the compound after she had returned from the school, and was never seen again till the next day when her lifeless body was found at the backyard, hanging from a tree.
The father his daughter’s action as shocking, saying: “She has destroyed the reputation of our respected family.”

What A Loss!