Sacrilege: Army officer commits suicide in Church
On Thursday, November 26, 2020, the people of Utit Uruan village in Northern Uruan, Uruan LGA in Akwa Ibom State woke up unusually earlier than before; as the quiet and peaceful community got disturbed by the virile news of a sorry and gory sight posed at the Methodist Church, Utit Uruan, Mfõn-Abasi Circuit, following suicide mission accomplished at the Church premises by a retired army officer.
The victim, Chief Bassey Usaña Ntuk, a ninety plus year old native of Abidañ Family of Mbiaya Uruan village, also of Uruan LGA, deemed it necessary to commit all to God by making the window of the Methodist Church, Utit Uruan village, his stake and Golgotha, where he gave up the ghost in a very abominable way by commuting suicide.
The Waves Newspaper’s anchor gathered from some indigenes of the Community that Chief Bassey Usaña was alleged to be a very mischievous, devilish, malicious and wicked man, who was alleged to have ruined the lives of some of his relations; including one of his grand children, who was buried few months ago.
He is alleged to have abandoned his compound, not steadying in his house from when the latest grand child got buried recently.
He was, since after the burial of the grand child, very uneasy to stay in the compound; as he had since been hunted and tormented by the ghost of the deceased grandchild, which he allegedly had been accused of being instrumental to the death.
In the contrary, one of the sons of the deceased (Chief Bassey Usaña Ntuk), who spoke with the Waves Newspaper’s reporter simply summarised and attributed the cause of death of his father to “the handiwork of the enemies of his father; who must have killed and hung him there; as his father would not have contemplated suicide; since he was not hungry or lacking anything that would have warranted his contemplating suicide”.
The son further said: “I suspect that my father’s enemies must have killed him at night and hung him there. Why would he not have died peacefully in his compound and in his village; so that we, the children and the grand children, would have cause to give him a befitting burial, if he had any genuine cause to warrant or instigate his death! With his children and grand children taking care of him properly and adequately, supplying his needs, in addition to his monthly pension, as a retired army officer, he would not have been forced into commuting suicide.
Poverty or hunger would not have caused him any wretched situation; in anyway,, in his nineties,” the son concluded.
Two days later, the relations of the strangled man arranged for the traditional sacrifices that always accompany such abominable act to be carried out.
Hence, after two days, his relations arranged and performed the atonement sacrifice for suicide and unhung him to the mortuary for embalmment; pending when he would be committed to the mother earth.
Despite this temporary measure of removing the corpse from the scene of the incidence, the traditional method of sacrificing to the gods of the land (principalities and powers) and the evil spirits to atone for the abominable and ignoble act might be invoked before his burial, which should be in the evil forest or at scene of the incidence; so as to terminate the re-occurrence of the cursed death in the family in future.
On the whole, some people are questioning why he had to leave Mbiaya Uruan, his village, to roam in a neighbouring village, Utit Uruan, where he committed suicide as well as the rationale behind his choosing a Church, the Methodist Church, as his locale for his abominable act.
As at press time, it was still being investigated whether he actually committed suicide as his personal choice or he was hunted and killed by enemies; who, after killing him, hung his corpse at the window of the Methodist Church, Utit Uruan; and why he had to leave his village, Mbiaya Uruan, for a neighbouring village, Utit Uruan, in the course of his committing suicide or accomplishing his mission.
