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Neighbour Reveals Real Reason 47-year-old Accountant with Glo, Folake Abiola, Killed Herself

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A neighbour of 47-year-old Lagos accountant, Folake Abiola, claimed that the deceased committed suicide because of an undisclosed ailment.

The accountant who had reportedly been an employee of mobile telecoms company, Glo, for over 15 years took her own life last Friday in her apartment in the Lekki area of Lagos.

One of her co-tenants, a retired civil servant, Mr Patrick Olumhense, who spoke with the Vanguard, said that Abiola suffered from an ailment gotten from her depression.

He said, “We were just neighbours, not relatives. We didn’t know about the death until her relatives woke us up that morning. It is a sad tale to recount. She was a very sociable and humble neighbour to us all. But she loved to be on her own.

She did not have many friends, apart from her younger sister who used to come and spend some time with her here. She used to live with her younger brother who has built his own house, married and moved out with his wife. But in the last five years, she had been living alone.

“Quite honestly, she appeared like someone who had mental challenges. Before her father died, we used to see him rush down to the house on occasions when it seemed she had a kind of attack, he would calm her down, take her for some kind of therapy and bring her back to start a normal life.

“That happened for quite some time and was managed by the father until the man died.

“Since her father died, nobody was playing that role for her, except the younger sister who came once in a while.

“For us as neighbours, we were aware of this problem. Whenever the attack came, we would contact her sister or brother. But this time, she didn’t exhibit any symptoms.”

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