The boyfriend of a Lagos-based hairdresser who committed suicide recently has spoken on the circumstances surrounding it.
Kenile Nwabuzor committed suicide in her Ijeshatedo home following a disagreement with the man identified as David.
Kenile said David was going out with too many girls and later sent e text message to him, saying, “If you want to kill me, I will help you by killing myself.”
While the late Nwabuzor hardly completed her secondary education, David, who is a photographer, is a graduate.
According to him, it is the nature of his job that attracted girls to him, just as he insists he is not going out with them.
But Kenile apparently did not believe this and eventually hanged herself in her room.
David says in an interview with ‘Saturday Punch’, “She was my girlfriend and I loved her very much. We started dating each other about two years ago. She was not that literate, but I told her it didn’t matter. When we met, she was in distress. Her mother just died then and she was living alone. She said she could not live without her mother. Her brothers are based in Ghana, but they usually sent her money.
“She told me she finished secondary school, but I don’t think so. I really wanted to help her improve on her education. She easily got angry and if she had a disagreement with someone, she might not talk to that person again for years. As our relationship continued, I tried to correct her. I persuaded her to be going to church and bought a Bible for her. We usually had disagreements over petty issues.
“If we had a misunderstanding, I could be in her house for hours begging her and she would not say anything. If I decided to go, that would be another fight. At times, the misunderstanding would last for days.”
“Because of the nature of my job, I have girls around me. She would be complaining that I was going out with them. I tried to tell her that she needed to trust me. I also saw boys around her because she was beautiful, yet I trusted her.
“Recently, she said I didn’t love her again. She changed her phone’s password to deny me access to her phone. She accused me of sleeping with women. It was true many ladies wanted me to ask them out, but I ignored them.
“She sent me text messages, but I didn’t reply. On Tuesday, I went to her house to return the charger she lent me and when I was about to leave, she returned all the things I had bought for her. That night, she sent a text message to me, saying that I had stopped loving her since December 2018 when we had fun at different places.
“She said she was no longer interested in the relationship. In my reply, I told her she was free to find her peace anywhere else. On Wednesday morning, I thought about everything again. I knew she was depressed and I had been the person encouraging her. I sent her another message, begging her. Most times, she would be the one to say she was not interested in the relationship, yet she would be crying. I was always the one saying sorry.”
How my girlfriend committed suicide after accusing me of unfaithfulness – Lagos photographer

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