Liberian Woman Commits Suicide For Contracting Deadly Virus

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There was confusion on Bankole Street, Isheri-Oke, Lagos on Friday morning when residents woke up to the sight of a woman hanging on a tree. The woman, popularly called Kate in the area, was found dead in a black sweater and orange skirt under a pear tree.
According to reports, the woman did not live on the street where she was found dead. Residents who spoke to Punch said she was a Liberian who worked in a sachet water factory before she died. While they said that the woman had been sickly for some time, the residents said she did not appear to have any problem with anyone in the community.
But after the outbreak of the Ebola disease that was brought to Nigeria by a Liberian diplomat, Patrick Sawyer, some of the people in the area opted not to have anything to do with her.
One of the residents who pleaded anonymity said, “We see her in this neighbourhood every day. She always looked sick but people stopped selling to her after the Ebola outbreak. It could be because she was Liberian and looked sickly. This might have frustrated her.”
Another resident said, “She attended a church in the area and her church members still saw her yesterday. I used to see her every day in the dress she died in. She was sick and people in this area had avoided her, especially after the Ebola outbreak.”
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, could not be reached for comments.
Meanwhile, when the Punch correspondent left the area around 11am today – the woman’s body was still hanging on the pear tree.


However, another newspaper house is reporting the story differently. According to The Nation:
A Liberian lady, Kate, a single mother of 8, who had reportedly tested positive to HIV, has committed suicide by hanging herself at a Mechanic workshop in Bankole street, Isheri-Magodo road, Lagos State. Residents of Isheri woke up this morning to a shocking sight of a lifeless body swinging with a rope tied to a tree in Mechanic workshop along Bankole street, Isheri, Lagos.
Journalists visited the scene this morning and according to residents who knew the lady, she is a Liberian immigrant living in Lagos for a while now, she might have committed suicide out of depression since learning she had tested positive of HIV. A source close to her revealed that the lady had been sick and receiving treatments before going for tests and learning that she was HIV positive. With all the stories of Ebola in Liberia, her friends abandoned her and stigmatization set in.
Kate who was a factory worker at a ‘pure-water’ company, became depressed and a friend of hers gave her some money and encouraged her to travel back to Liberia to her husband to get treatment but couldn’t due to the problems of Ebola in Liberia. She has been alone, suffering and starving with no means of income. Some residents in the compound she lived in even helped her with foodstuffs and money encouraging her to stay calm.
They were shocked to wake up to her dead body. One of the residents who recounted his last moments with her said she was dejected, sitting outside and in deep thoughts; little did they know her thoughts were about committing suicide.
As at the time newsmen visited the area, her lifeless body was still hanging there with the police who visited the area refusing to touch the body saying they cannot take off the body as its a custom attached to committed suicide by hanging.
One of the onlookers said in Yoruba tradition if the body was removed by anybody, her family members would all die; that its a spiritual thing and only spiritual people can do the necessary rituals before dismounting the body.
Source: mysugardaily.com


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