Nkechi F Chukwuemeka, an Abuja based lawyer has expressed her
sadness and sympathy over the dead of the 20-year-old student of
University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN).
Nkechi F Chukwuemeka said she still feels so completely
dreamlike going through Chukwuemeka Akachi’s timeline. Reading his
(the deceased’s) timeline, “his poetry, his soul, his belief, his
demons, his battles, his atheism, his intelligence is
unfathomable.”
She said she took up to two hours scrolling his timeline and
reading his poetry and her little observation was that some of the
deceased’s childhood experiences had sunk him into nothingness and
he felt death and leaving this world could end the dissatisfaction
he experienced in life. He kept on referring to an incident where
her sister urinated into his bathing water and because his Mum
couldn’t believe him when he reported, he was forced to bath with
it. That incident happened once, but it so damaged his essence or
belief in any person around him.
Chukuemeka continued thus:
“He needed love and affection but probably did not get it or
find it.
“HE APPARENTLY TURNED TO ATHEISM. He was a member of the
atheist society of NIGERIA on campus. what!!!!
“He also admitted to battling mental instability and
depression and in one post, he said he officially needed a
therapist. Who knows whether the help came or didn’t come on
time?
“I wish I knew this boy before he died, I wish I could have
reached out, maybe a call, a text, a visit, a
hug…..anything.
“I’m an ardent believer of Love, let us Love and give solace
to one another in this hopeless world.”
Nairalaw (TNL) recalls that the young man who happened
to be 400 level student of English and Literary Studies was said to
have committed suicide at an uncompleted building located at
Sullivan Road, Nsukka by taking two bottles of substance suspected
to “sniper” insecticide.