Undergraduate Commits Suicide After Being Nabbed For Cheating Inside Exam Hall

Daniel Mba, a 300 level student of Biochemistry, University of Nigeria, UNN, Nsukka, has reportedly committed suicide after he was caught cheating in an examination.

Reports have it that the young man took his life by plunging off the third floor of a storey building outside the campus.

The deceased, said to hail from Aninri Local Government Area of Enugu State, was caught cheating with his phone during the ongoing examination in his department.

A lecturer reportedly seized his phone and tore his script a few minutes to the end of the exam. Thereafter, the invigilator handed him a new script to start afresh.

The deceased left the examination hall and went to his lodge at Onuiyi in Nsukka Local Government Area of the state.

There, he allegedly injected some poisonous substances including rat poison to effect the suicide.

When the poisons failed to produce an immediate result, the student jumped from a storey building around 11:34 pm.

A co-resident of the lodge, who identified herself as Nkechi Abo, stated that immediately the incident happened, they quickly rushed to the deceased’s room where they discovered rat poison, bleach containers and syringes.

Another occupant, Christabel Okpara, told a correspondent that they alerted the caretaker of the lodge when they discovered the student struggling for life after jumping from the third floor.

He was rushed to the Bishop Shanahan Hospital, Nsukka where he died in the early hours of Saturday, March 13.

Meanwhile, the Caretaker of the lodge who pleaded anonymity was said to have reported the incident to the police after every attempt to revive the deceased in the hospital failed.

According to him, “A friend who stayed with him when he regained consciousness in the hospital said he complained of frustration with his last examination encounter and financial hardship. He told him that his family was not giving him enough money for upkeep. He said he was bitter that the lecturer also seized his phone.

“When I rushed to the lodge, I saw him on the floor clutching a kitchen knife. We immediately rushed him to the hospital and he was given immediate medical attention. We later returned to his room where we discovered rat poison and bleach. As a matter of fact, we also saw syringes on the floor. We also saw a rope tied to his ceiling fan.

“He is a loner because I have not seen him with any friend since he packed into the lodge. I was surprised that one girl who identified herself as Scholastica showed up as his girlfriend. I think he must have been suffering from depression silently.”