A 35-year-old man, Saleh Abdullahi, has been found dead after hanging himself in a room in the Sharada area of Kano.
The victim was said to have left a written note starting with: “I am sorry.” But the rest was not legible.
City & Crime learnt that he was said to be staying in the boys’ quarters of his brother, Idris Hamisu l.
Hamisu told our reporter that, “I came back from morning prayers, my wife wanted to prepare food for our children and she was looking for matches to set fire but there was none. She remembered that Salisu was usually using it for local perfume. When she sent our child to collect the matches, the boy saw him hanging and he ran back shouting that Yaya Saleh was hung by someone. I then rushed to the room and saw it was true.”
Asked whether he had any issue with the deceased, he said, “We didn’t have any problem. All I know is that these recent days he had been worried, and as businessmen, we usually feel like that when the market is bad.
‘’We are business people and we trade in furniture, but Saleh sometimes engaged in buying and selling old materials.
“He showed signs of worry these days because he collected money from someone and bought materials worth N400,000 in Rijiyar Zaki from some people and they took him to the house where they kept the materials and told him to come back another day to take them. When he asked for their phone number, they said since he saw the house he could just come back anytime, and when he went back later he could not find the house. That was what caused the worry for him because the money was not his and the owner put pressure on him to pay back.”
There was no response from the police command on the incident.
