A thirteen-year-old girl Precious Iwezoa who lived with her grandmother has allegedly hanged herself in Benin, Edo State.
Precious was found dead in their compound at No. 6 Osagie Street, Off Lucky Way Road, Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area by a neighbor, Peace Uwadia who immediately alerted her family.
“Around 12, that was when I entered the house after church service. Immediately I opened the gate, I sighted her dead body and the rope. I did not know what exactly happened,” Uwadia explained.
“I was shocked and immediately raised the alarm to alert the grandmother because I knew she would be the only one in the house.”
The teenager had been living with her paternal grandmother since 2017. Janet Ohioma – the grandmother narrated that Precious had earlier helped her to heat her food and later sat in the living room watching the television.
When Uwadia raised the alarm, Mrs Ohioma did not expect to see a lifeless Precious.
“I thought Precious had run away away from home as she had done before but was found by a neighbor. When I got to where Precious was, I fell,” the devastated woman told newsmen.
Officers from the Edo State Police Command who visited the scene assured that the incident will be investigated but ruled out foul play.
“The police has removed the body and deposited for preservation at our clinic at Ikpoba Hill while investigation is on to unravel the cause of her hanging herself,” police spokesman Edo State Command, Bello Kontongs, said of Precious who lost her mother at two.
“It is sad for me reporting that a thirteen-year-old who has not even started life, is hanging herself for reasons only known to her because there was no suicide note and observing the body, for now, I can say there was no foul play. She actually hanged herself.”
