A 41-year-old woman, Shakirat Rasheed, on Friday, committed suicide in Apete area of Ibadan.
According to Nigerian Tribune, details of her death was not unconnected with a loan taken from a micro finance bank popularly known as LAPO.
The report stated that Mrs Rasheed reportedly stood as a guarantor for her friend who obtained a loan from LAPO office at Awotan area, but the friend was said to have been at large, forcing the guarantor to be paying the loan back in bits.
Sources added that the loan “caused Mrs Rasheed anxiety and she seemed unable to bear the problem any longer, especially when officials of the micro-finance bank reportedly called her on Friday to see them in their office.”
The Divisional Police Officer in charge of Apete police station led detectives to the scene of the incident, while the family said that there would be need to perform some rituals before the body could be detached from the rope hanging it from the ceiling.
When Tribune contacted the state Commissioner of Police, Shina Olukolu, he confirmed the story, saying that preliminary investigation indicated that the woman committed suicide.
