Tragedy struck in Jato-Aka as a farmer, identified as Terdzungwe Orban, took his life, citing hardship and frustration at an Internally-Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp.
- +Farmer kills self over hardship in Benue IDP camp
A local in the area who identified himself as Lawrence Akerigba in a telephone interview informed that Orban, who was displaced from Ikyoawen settlement in Turan Community has been complaining how he had lost everything he had laboured for in life in a day and how he had ended up in Camp as an IDP, saying life was not worth living.
A local in the area who identified himself as Lawrence Akerigba in a telephone interview informed that Orban, who was displaced from Ikyoawen settlement in Turan Community has been complaining how he had lost everything he had laboured for in life in a day and how he had ended up in Camp as an IDP, saying life was not worth living.
Akerigba said, Orban had allegedly bought a toxic chemical from an Agrochemical shop in Jato Aka and consumed it right outside the premises.
He said, Orban immediately collapsed moments after taking the substance and died before any medical help could reach him.
“The remains of the deceased has since been taken to a mortuary, as the incident continues to leave residents in shocked
“Some of the locals including Terkura Iorbee, Igbadoo Kershima, Iorzua Yiyeh all described the development as heartbreaking, attributing it to the difficulties experienced in camps.
“This is very painful, we are farmers, we have our homes, but as it is now, we can not access our homes, we can’t go to our farms, we have no food, our children are no longer going to school, no hospital, all our markets have been destroyed, we are now at the mercy of government, faith based organizing Civil Society Organizations and other philanthropists many people in the Camp are going through psychological trauma.”
BusinessDay gathered that Ikyoawen in Turan Community has experienced persistent attacks where many people are killed, injured and displaced with houses crops and farms destroyed in recent times.
Efforts to speak with the State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Udeme Edet failed as she was neither picking nor replying to text messages sent to her at the time of filing this report.
