PHOTO: Igbo Man Sets Self Ablaze In Abuja To Protest Economic Hardship

Another photo is after the cut. Warning: Graphic Photo

 

Days to the New Year, a middle-aged man Mr. Fredrick Onuigbo committed suicide by setting himself ablaze in Abuja on the 23rd December, 2013.

Reports (AIT) say Mr Frederick had:

•  an ejection threat from the Landlord;
• 7 Children out of school;
• his mother’s corpse was in the mortuary;
• no single food in his house;
• he had lost his business,
• was faced with loan repayment from a Microfinance bank…. all hope was lost and he succumbed to economic threat in Nigeria.

Whilst arrangement was in top gear for the yuletide for many families, Frederick walked out of his house that fateful day by 6 am, bought fuel and set himself ablaze behind NNPC Filling Station in Gwarimpa Abuja.

According to the family members, Late Fredrick could no longer understand the definition of “Economic Growth” on the pages of newspaper and Television.
He wondered why “Economic Growth” is no longer about food on table, roof above the head, affordable medical facilities, good education…. he was caught in the web of economic depreciation which has been choking him for years now.

However, the police have evacuated the corpse to the mortuary of the General Hospital, Kubwa, Abuja.