Tragedy as tricycle rider’s wife poisons self, one-year-old child

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By Ismail Auwal

Panic as a woman poisons herself and her one-year-old baby in Alimosho’s Igando/Ikotun Local Council Development Area, LCDA.

Rejoice Ukpai, the deceased, was suspected of intaking a poisonous substance and giving some to her baby.

According to the Vanguard newspaper, the container of the substance was discovered near where their bodies were discovered. However, there was no suicide note to indicate what might have prompted her action.

Some residents said she was seen writhing in agony around 10 p.m. on Monday.

When questioned, she revealed the name of the substance she consumed, prompting concerned neighbors to give her and her baby palm oil to drink.

Her husband, Ekene Ukpai, a tricyclist from Ebonyi State, expressed surprise when he was invited to the location of the bodies.

In tears, he explained that late Rejoice had informed him the day before that she was going to church for a vigil at around 6 p.m.

According to him “Out of curiosity, I called the Pastor of the church to know if there was any vigil on a Monday and he said there wasn’t.

“When I confronted her, she said she wanted to go and pay her contribution to the person coordinating it and I allowed her to go with the baby, while I went to work.

“When I returned, she was nowhere to be found.

”I went to where she told me she was going but met the apartment locked.

“I called her Pastor’s wife to ask after my wife and baby, but she said she did not see them.

“It was the Pastor that invited me this morning(yesterday) to the spot where their bodies laid.”

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