Anambra Police Rescue Suicider, Render Medical Assistance And Kept In Safe Custody For Monitoring
Anambra Police, on 23/8/2024, rescued a young man who attempted to take his own life.
He was debriefed, rendered medical assistance and kept in safe custody for monitoring.
In a statement issued on Saturday, the State Police Public Relations Officer PPRO SP Tochukwu Ikenga, said that the young man, who was later identified as Alozie John ‘m’ aged 27years, from Isielu LGA Ebonyi State, but lives in Umunnachi, Dunukofia LGA.
According to the statement, his WhatsApp message was intercepted when he engaged the Command on a chat that he drank a poisonous substance hoping for death because of indebtedness of One million, two hundred thousand Naira to his supplier of livestock products.
Ikenga said that the young man further confessed that he sells live Chicken and that after he took the harmful chemical did not feel otherwise.
Meanwhile, his mother was contacted, and she is currently assisting the Police with evaluation, references and transfer to a better facility for proper and other necessary care of the boy.