A man believed to be in
his early 60s, has set himself ablaze in a rented hotel apartment in Nyanya, a
satellite town of Abuja, Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The
incident which occurred in the early hours of Thursday, also saw the entire
hotel completely raid by fire, even as the deceased, Dr. Isaac Ojukwu, was
equally burnt beyond recognition.
Narrating
the ugly incidence to newsmen in Abuja on Friday, the Owner of the burnt Hotel
and Associate, Professor at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Sylvanus M.
Itodo (MON); said it still remained a shock, how an adult would just wish to
take his own life, without a particular known reason.
“We
were all sitting together that fateful night (Wednesday night) before he left
to watch football match and I also left the hotel premises by 11pm, to go and
sleep.
“It
was around 12am that I recieved a phone call from one of the boys in the hotel,
crying, that my hotel was on fire. Before I could get down here, the flame was
everywhere; and it took the efforts of the Federal Fire Service to prevent the
inferno from escalating to the surrounding houses,” Itodo lamented.
Daily
Post investigation revealed that, the deceased, who hailed from Ohuhu in
Umuahia area of Abia State, had been staying in the apartment, Boundary Plaza
Hotel, Nyanya, for the past 5 years.
Though DP gathered that he was married to a German woman with kids, it was, however,
revealed that, none of his family members, including the wife or children, had
paid him a visit all through his stay in the hotel.
-Daily Post
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