A shocking tragedy in June 2024 left a campus community in mourning after two HND1 students were found dead in a one-bedroom apartment. The situation deepened when the young woman’s father reportedly rejected her corpse, citing shame. Months later, a lecturer revealed he witnessed their burial, describing it as painful and undignified.
Her father rejected her corpse after hearing she died in her school boyfriend’s house. They were both found dead in his sitting room.
This happened in June of 2024, I was in HND1 then. It was during the first semester holiday and I was home when the news broke out about the incident.
I woke up one morning to the news, plus gory videos circulating all over WhatsApp, starting from Campus screen. They were both naked on the tiled floor of the guy’s apartment and had two empty plastic take out plate beside them. They were both foaming from the mouth too. Neighbors had to break in from the window. I don’t know how they found out something was wrong sha.
The big question on everyone’s lips was; “what happened?”
No one knew exactly what caused their death, but different gossips spread concerning it. Some said she was engaged back home and returned to school to do an abo.rtion for the school boyfriend that led to her demise. But how about the guy’s death? Some said the guy had told his friends that he found a calabash tied with red ropes inside the apartment when he packed in.
It was alleged that he called a medicine man to remove the stuff from his apartment.
Amongst them were these few facts; The guy had just packed into the one bedroom flat the previous week before their death, They were dating, she had a fiancé back home, she was sick and on injections.
The guy’s friends knew about her being sick and that she even took injections the previous night so they went and picked up the pharmacy woman who was treating her.
Investigations started in earnest as the school authorities had to step into the matter because the news traveled far. The guy in question was a popular person. Heard he served as a Mr of his department during his ND. He was in HND1 at the time too.
The news soon faded after a whole week of trending and I really didn’t get what transpired before and after the death except that they had been buried.
Well, months later a lecturer referred back to that incident during a class presentation. It was then we got to hear from a more reliable source.
The man digressed during the class and began to advise us. It was in the course of the advice that we heard a clearer version of what happened months before.
The lecturer in question said he was part of the persons who took their corpses to mortuary and even to the cemetery for burial.
He said the girl had initially gone home for the break in May, only to return back after lying to her parents and fiancé that they had urgent assignments to submit in school. She came back and went to camp with the guy in whose house she kpaied.
He said no one really knows the real cause of their death cause I don’t think autopsy was carried out. If it was, he didn’t mention.
He just said the death was such a shameful one because their naked bodies trended online for the wrong reason.
He said when calls was placed across to their both families, the girl’s father rejected her corpse stating that she brought shame to him so he won’t have anything to do with her in death. He told them to do with the corpse whatever they wanted, forbidding to step foot in Bida to claim her body or even attend the burial.
She was a Muslim and her father is said to be a well respected cleric.
Our lecturer said the burial was somehow, because they were not even covered before they put them into the ground as I don’t think the boy’s family came too. “When we tell you young people to be careful about this so called enjoyment of yours, you will think we are old schooled. Just see how these two ended. No dignity at all. Her fiancé at home would be so ashamed.”
They also had to let the pharmacy woman go because there was no point holding her when it wasn’t that she injected the both of them. She said it was malaria she was treating her for.
Our lecturer ended his advise with; “Most of your parents are depending on you to take them out of struggling, do not bring shame to them because you engaged in something that you could have avoided. Please.”
He was saying this with so much seriousness that held pain. If he was feeling that way, how will the families of the deceased feel whenever they remember their ward died in that way?
And the both of them were very cute persons. Chaiii!
God Abeg!🥹🙏
Written by Peace Chinwendu Okeke