By Oluwatosin Maliki
A Female undergraduate student of the University of Ilorin, identified as Sanni Hameedat, has taken her life after lending a boy she met on social media platform, Snapchat, the sum of N500,000.
The 20-year-old student reportedly committed suicide in her hostel on Wednesday.
According to Rubiks, the private hostel management which she lived in before her death, confirmed the incident on Wednesday, October 18, 2023.
The management of UNILORIN, stated that Hameedat was currently undergoing her SIWES programme before the unfortunate incident happened.
Furthermore, the management expressed that the cause of her death was not unrelated to the pressure which came from the loan app agents, who were on her neck constantly demanding fast repayment, also coupled with her brother’s inability to assist her financially, which eventually led to depression.
The school management stated, “The cause of suicide was traced to financial misappropriation. She was entrusted with a significant sum of money by her mother. She crossed paths with a guy on Snapchat and developed a friendship”.
“When the boy claimed that his mother was battling breast cancer and urgently needed N500,000, the compassionate and emotional lady decided to help him by lending him half of the N1 million she held for her mother. And the boy promised to repay the borrowed money”.
The university added, “However, when her mother needed the money back, the boy abruptly cut off all up all contact, blocking her. This left her deeply troubled and in order for her to make up the missing N500,000, she resorted to borrowing money from various apps.”
Hameedat made frantic efforts to raise the money but only managed to gather N450,000 from the loan apps, she proceeded to add her own personal savings of N50,000 to make up the borrowed N500,000.
In addition, the management further explained that she was reported to have ingested a bottle of pesticide popularly known as Sniper the previous night, and her roommate (name withheld for security purposes), who had already gone to bed early, suddenly woke up in the middle of the night to discover her in distress as she was foaming from her mouth and also vomiting.
“Alarmed, the roommate sought for help, and she was rushed to UITH before being declared dead”.
Also, the Student Union President, Ologundudu Adesunkanmi, popularly referred to as Royal Prince, confirmed the incident.
He stated, “The Vice-Chancellor, Dean of Student Affairs are very much aware of the issue, and they have reported to the appropriate authority to begin a full-length investigation into the matter. It is sad that the university community lost her in such a devastating manner”.