OMG! Liberian Girl Hangs Self In Lagos

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. 

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Residents of Isheri woke up yesterday 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. GossipBoyz.com.ng visited the scene this morning  and according to residents who knew the lady, she was a Liberian immigrant living in Lagos for a while now and 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 GossipBoyz.com.ng visited the area, her lifeless body is still hanging out 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.