Babatunji Wusu –
Sanni Hameedat, a student at the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), is said to have taken her own life after lending N500,000 to a male she met on the social media app Snapchat.
The private hostel she was staying at before she passed away, Rubiks, verified the development.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the management revealed that Hameedat was enrolled in her SIWES program at the time the incident occurred.
The management claimed that the pressure from the app agents, who demanded quick payback, together with her brother’s failure to provide her with financial support, which caused depression, were two factors that contributed to her death.
The declaration adds, “Financial misappropriation was the reason of the suicide. Her mother had given her a considerable amount of money. On Snapchat, she met a guy with whom she later became friends.
“When the child stated that his mother had breast cancer and desperately needed N500,000, the kind and sympathetic woman made the decision to assist him by financing him N500,000—half of the N1 million she had set up for her own mother. The child also pledged to pay back the money he had borrowed.
“However, the boy quickly cut off all contact when her mother demanded the money back, blocking her. She was greatly upset by this and turned to borrowing money from several applications to make up the lost N500,000.
Hameedat was able to collect N450,000 from the loan applications and combine it with her N50,000 in savings to cover the N500,000 she had to borrow.
The management also claimed that she had reportedly consumed a bottle of the popular pesticide Sniper the night before, and that her roommate (name withheld), who had gone to bed early, awoke in the middle of the night to find her in distress and vomiting and foaming at the mouth.
The statement ended with the phrase “Alarmed, the roommate sought help, and she was rushed to UITH before being declared dead.”
Ologundudu Adesunkanmi, also known as Royal Prince, the president of the student union, verified the occurrence in an interview with Punch.
“The Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Student Affairs are fully aware of the issue, and they have reported to the appropriate authority to start a thorough investigation into the matter,” he stated. It is regrettable that she left the academic community in such a tragic way.
