Sad! Civil Service director commits suicide after wife gave birth to triplets

The incident is said to have taken place behind the mammy market at the Maigumeri Barracks in Lokoja, the capital of Kogi State. Soje was aged 54 years and his wife is said to have given birth for the first time, seventeen years after marriage to triplets at an Abuja private hospital. A grade level 16 officer in the Kogi State Teaching Service Commission, he was also one of those being owed arrears of several months salaries by the Kogi State government.

Reports indicate that the late Soje left a suicide note for his wife, in which he had quoted a verse from Psalms and told her that he loved her. His wife is a staff of one of the federal ministries according to reports.

Confirming the incident, the state police command Public Relations Officer, William Aya, said the dangling body of Mr. Soje was found on a tree behind the barracks at about 5:55 p.m on Oct. 16.

Mr. Aya said the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Area D Division received information about the incident from the military intelligence office in the barracks.

“Police moved to the scene, removed the corpse to the morgue of the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja.  Investigation is still ongoing,” Mr. Aya said.

Family sources said that Mr. Soje had before the incident been going through a lot of financial difficulties due to non-payment of his salary for 11 months by the Kogi State Government. He was among thousands of civil servants being owed between two and 21 months’ salary arrears by the state government.

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