‘If I don’t pay today, I’ll be dead’, businessman wrote someone for assistance before he killed himself
The last message of a Nigerian businessman, Onoh Chukwuma Richard, before he committed suicide has been unearthed.
It was a desperate message to someone he hoped could bail him out of a financial mess he found himself.
He told the person identified as Steven Ukpabio in the text message that he took to gambling as a result of lack of a job.
He wrote: “The only option is to end my life as I cannot live with the shame. His Excellency, please, come to my rescue. I have turned to gambler because of no job. And right now, if I don’t redeem my debt I might kill myself to pay the debt.”
Onoh Chukwuma Richard, described as the CEO of Faso Energy Limited, thereafter drank an insecticide when he could not get the needed help.
He had used N2.500,000 to place a bet. N1.5m of the money was not his. He borrowed it. Then the game he played went bad.
He went live on Facebook to reveal plans to exit the world. He recorded a wordless video in a lemon-coloured t-shirt. That was his last Video.
He also made a post, writing: “Today is my last day on earth. I going to meet my maker.”
Friends immediately started reaching out to him, but they found him writhing in pain. They rushed him to Madonna Hospital in Umuahia.
Sadly, the Abia-born businessman died.
A Video of him in the hospital shows him wearing the same clothes he had on during his live video. Some friends claim he already ingested the sniper before going live.
He is survived by his elderly mother, whom he regularly writes about on Facebook. Just weeks ago, he spoke about his mother urging him to find a wife and get married.
