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A graduate of Ambrose Ali University (AAU) in Ekpoma, Edo state has reportedly attempted suicide over the institution’s alleged refusal to issue him his results.
The student, identified as Precious Ogbeide, graduated from the state-owned university in 2018 but lamented that he has not been issued his certificate.
According to PUNCH, the parents of Ogbeide said he has been battling depression due to his inability to be issued his results after undergoing a five-year programme in the school.
The AAU graduate was said to have begun to stab himself with pieces of a bottle he had broken.
Some aggrieved students of the school, it is understood, had also lamented the inability to receive their degree results.
They said the tertiary institution had been promising them that the backlog of results would be cleared and students who were yet to be mobilised for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme would be settled.
A source was quoted as saying the aggrieved graduate became frustrated and decided to “end his life” over the matter.
“I received a call at about 3:30 pm on Monday that Ogbeinde had been rushed to the hospital. I was told he had been showing signs of depression and that they had tried to help in every possible way they could,” the source said.
“The mother told me that he just stood up all of a sudden with a bottle and smashed it on the floor.
“They told me it was a slip. But he started to pierce his neck and body with the pieces of the broken bottle.
“It was the efforts of his relative present at the time of the incident that overpowered him before he was rushed to the hospital where he is currently receiving treatment.
“He said he was tired of everything. He said he had not been able to face his parents and family members after going to school for five years without any result to show for it.”
The source said Ogbeide’s effort to get a job with which to fend for himself proved abortive due to the issue.
“He could not get a job because they kept asking him to provide his certificate,” the source was quoted as adding.
“He said any time he met those who could help him get a job, they would tell him to wait for his result. He was just fed up with the whole thing and became frustrated that his future was on hold.”
TheCable has contacted the AAU management for details on the withheld results.
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