A Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro (FPI) student killed himself after using his and his roommate’s tuition money to gamble online and losing.
Samuel Adegoke, a National Diploma II student in Electrical Electronic Engineering, reportedly took a chemical substance on Monday while his classmates were getting ready for the first-semester exam, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
According to reports, the deceased lost his friend’s and his own tuition on online betting on Friday, despite the school’s warning that no student would be permitted to take the exam without registering.
The student allegedly arrived at the exam on May 22 just a few minutes early to avoid embarrassment.
He was taken urgently to the clinic at the school for first aid before being sent to a specialist hospital, where he was later declared dead.
Sola Abiala, the school’s public relations officer, confirmed the development and said: “It was detected at the specialist hospital that the late student drank snipper.
“His father told the school that his son had used his school fees to gamble last session but, he had to rescue him by making another payment.”
The deceased, who was well-known for gambling away his tuition, according to Abiala, left no note indicating that he had committed suicide.
“We have a policy here that any student that does not pay school fees will not write exam.
“He realised that he and his friend would not write the exam, that was why he committed suicide.
“We sent for his parents and briefed them. His father told us that his late son did the same thing last session and he had to send money to him to pay the fees.
“He said if he had known about the latest one, he would have paid for it.
“But when we asked the father to take possession of the corpse, he rejected it and said he could not take his son’s corpse back home.
“He asked us to bury him. The school paid part of the burial expenses, and had to pay the fee for the other student whose fee was used to gamble to avoid another calamity. We didn’t want him to also commit suicide.
“We were surprised that he did not leave any suicide note behind. We did not see any note. We went to his house and checked for a note, but there was no note other than the bottle of the snipper he drank.”
Many young people view online gambling as a quick source of income, and they occasionally take significant risks in the hopes of increasing their winnings. Some of them experience depression and consider suicide when they lose.
