Accountant at a telecommunications company in Lagos commits suicide after long battle with depression

An accountant at a telecommunications company in Lagos state, Folake Abiola, has allegedly committed suicide at her residence at Osapa London, in the Lekki area of Lagos State.

Punch reports that the 45-year-old killed herself by drinking an insecticide at her house last Friday, May 27th.

She was said to have died shortly after, and her family members, friends and men of the Nigeria Police Force met her lying motionless.

Confirming the incident, her colleague who spoke on condition of anonymity said Abiola had been suffering from depression for years, adding that the news of her death was shocking. The colleague said contrary to claims online that Abiola committed suicide due to loneliness, lack of a husband, among others, the colleague said her associates knew that she had been in romantic relationships, adding that she ended them due to depression.

“She had been suffering from depression for years and her death has nothing to do with loneliness or lack of a husband or sex. Within the last seven years, I know she was in a relationship twice.

She ended those relationships on her own because of depression. She said she did not want to bring someone else into her life when she could not take care of herself. She was going through extreme depression, but people that did not know what she was going through have been posting rubbish online.

She was a senior accountant at a telecoms firm and we are colleagues. She took her life herself and was buried that same Friday as she was the only Christian in her family.”the colleague said 

The colleague described Abiola as an angel, a conscientious accountant, and a lover of Christ, who was liberal in giving, adding that she had been saying she wanted to end it all before she took her life. She said the deceased only recently celebrated her 45th birthday and was always keeping to herself.

Confirming the incident to newsmen, the spokesperson of the state police command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said the police visited Abiola’s house and met her lifeless body on the floor.

“The moment the police in that area were alerted, they arrived at the scene and met the woman lifeless on the floor. A bottle of insecticide was also found on her, apparently, she had ingested that insecticide.

The family members that were there officially wrote to the divisional police officer requesting for the release of the corpse to enable them to bury her in accordance with Islamic rites and the corpse was released to the family on compassionate grounds.”he said