The administration of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) condoles with the family, friends, and coworkers of Sanni Hameedat, a deceased student who committed suicide after giving a male she met on the social media app Snapchat N500,000.
She was undertaking SIWES at the time
According to The jerrymusa.com, Hameedat was enrolled in her SIWES program when the event took place.
In a widely shared message on WhatsApp, the management of the private hostel Rubiks, where she resided before her death, confirmed that the pressure from the app agents who demanded prompt repayment and her brother’s inability to provide financial support, which caused depression, were the causes of her death.
The University of Ilorin expressed its sorrow at the death by suicide of one of its students, Sanni Hameedat, in a statement provided to our correspondent on Wednesday. The statement, titled “UNILORIN condoles with the parents of a deceased student,” was made available by the Director of Corporate Affairs, Kunle Akogun.
Financial misappropriation is suicide’s root cause
“Financial misappropriation was shown to be suicide’s root cause. Her mother had given her a considerable amount of money. On Snapchat, she met a guy with whom she later became friends.
“A most horrible way to die, especially for a promising young lady who had every chance to make it big in life,” Akogun said of the tragedy.
The university administration, he continued, “sympathizes with the parents, siblings, friends, and coworkers of the deceased and prays that God gives them the strength to bear the loss.” He added, “The management will counsel the students of the university to be wary of the company they keep in order to not fall into the traps of scammers.”
“The University of Ilorin is reputed to be a bastion of moral and academic education, and we are surprised that any of our students, upon all the moral and academic instructions inculcated in them, could have associated with such an undesirable element as a supposed boyfriend and even went ahead to take the extreme step of taking their own lives,” the university administration bemoaned.