Woman set self ablaze in Abeokuta over Lapo Loan repayment

By Ilemobayo Oguntusin

A woman known as Mama Dada has reportedly committed suicide by setting herself ablaze in her apartment at Oke-Keesi, Itoko area of Abeokuta, Ogun State today around 2pm.

It was learnt from her neighbours that she was owing one of the microfinance institutions popularly known as ‘Gbomu le lantern’ a loan of seventy thousand naira (70k).

According to the CDA secretary popularly known as Elder Babawale said she’s owing the ‘Gbomu le lantern’ the sum of 70k, because she was unable to meet up with the payment she then sent her last born to buy fuel and also use style to discharge the small boy and she lock herself up inside the room and wet everywhere with petrol including herself and she burn herself inside.

Her corpse has since been deposited at the State General Hospital, ijaye by the Ogun State fire service.

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