Woman Sets Her Self Ablaze In Ogun Over Unpaid N70,000 Debt

A woman in her forties has set herself ablaze in abeokuta, the ogun state capital, over unpaid n70,000 loan she borrowed from a Micro Finance Company.

The tragic incdent took place on Saturday at Oke Keesi at Itoko axis of the city.

Witnesses told RockCity FM that she decided to take her life after coming under pressure to repay the loan.

Secretary of the community development association in the area, said they suspected that the woman took the tragic decision because she could not repay the loan.

The woman was said to have sent her son to buy her petrol.

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She then sent the boy on an errand, after which she locked herself up inside her room, doused herself and the room with the petrol.

After that, she set herself and the room on fire, which razed the entire building which caused panic in the area.

A former member of the community bank’s group, who identified herself simply as Mrs Adeogun, told our correspondent that an ‘unprecedented embarrassment’ will befall anyone who refuses to pay back the loan at the set date.

In her words, “If you refuse to pay them back at the set date, you will be treated like trash, you will be embarrassed in a big way, in a manner that your children will forever be ashamed of. I know what I am saying; I used to be a member.

“One must be a member and a committed one before you will be given a reasonable amount of money.

“What they do is that you will join the group and start making thrift with them, it is the evidence of this thrift through your card that will qualify you for a loan which you must either pay back outrightly or in batches.

“But either in batches or outrightly, there is always a set date for repayment that you must meet but if you default, you will live to blame yourself.”