14-Year-Old Donald Went To Get Fufu And Never Came Back, But…

The residents of Ekondo Community Street in Calabar were thrown into mourning following the death of 14-year-old Donald.

Donald who lived with his grandmother at 49, Ekondo Street in Calabar South was said to have gone out to get cassava meal otherwise known as fufu, but never returned.

Narrating the unfortunate ordeal was one of Donald’s friends, Eyo, who said since his death, he has been having dreams about him.

He said, “After going to buy the fufu, nobody heard from him again until about noon when the grandmother called a carpenter to help him bring the boy down from where he was leaning on the wall with a rope on his neck.”

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He said the carpenter asked what happened but the woman did not say anything tangible prompting the carpenter to run out of the premises to raise the alarm.

Eyo further stated, “Nobody heard any noise from the compound until the carpenter ran out and raised the alarm and we all went inside the compound. The boys’ legs were on the floor, there was no table or object which the boy climbed on to fix his head on the noose and the string round his neck was just a shoelace.”

He said the police from Atakpa Police Station came in to assess the situation and later went back.

He added, “The police did not touch the boy and others who were called to take the boy down did not touch the body and when the woman was asked to take the boy down she refused.”

Another resident of the street said he is at a loss how the boy could have committed suicide with a shoelace.

He said, “There is no how the boy could tie that tiny rope on his neck to commit suicide without the shoelace cutting”.

The resident said, “We were very close and since Saturday afternoon when I saw him leaning on that wall with a rope round his neck, each time I sleep, I see him and he keeps asking for justice. All these are happening because the boy is an orphan. His dad and mother are both dead.”