Woman commits suicide, boy drowns in Ibadan.

It was lamentation galore at Gada area of Odo-Ona Community, Apata-Ganga road, Ibadan, Oyo State, on Monday, as residents of the area woke up early in the morning to witness another tragedy of double proportion involving a 10-year-old boy and a middle-aged widow.
According to eye witnesses, the two sad incidents occurred at about 9:10 a.m when the young boy, whose parents live at Gada area of Odo-Ona community, went to Odo-Ona river to fish without the consent of the parents.the boy, who was in the habit of going to the river to fish whenever his parents were not around, got drowned in the river when he was making frantic effort to pull out a perceived big fish which his hook had caught.
According to a furniture maker, whose shop is close to Gada bridge, under which Odo-Ona river flows, “we were in the shop trying to start the day’s job when we suddenly heard a loud noise of Egbami o (meaning save me) from the young boy. Before we could call the attention of other people to rescue the small boy, he suddenly disappeared inside the river and that was the end,” he stated.
However, many sympathizers volunteered to search for the boy’s body inside the river and in the process of doing that, the search team met another tragedy inside the bush around the river, while trying to trace the corpse of the boy.
It was Learnt that the search team stumbled on the corpse of a middle- aged woman dangling on a tree, who they suspected must have committed suicide by hanging herself.
Further investigation by the Nigerian Tribune on the sad development revealed that the widow hanged herself inside the bush near the river since last week Friday for a yet-to-be unraveled reason..........the son of the deceased, Mr Opeyemi, who works in a popular company at the Oluyole Industrial Estate, Ibadan, gave the name of their deceased mother as Mrs Juliana Olubunmi Oluwafemi and put her age between 50 and 55 years.
According to Opeyemi, her late mother was a waste recycler at Ring road, Ibadan, and stayed at Bembo area of Apata-Ganga, Ibadan, having lost their father five years ago.
The first son of the late widow further revealed that they had been looking for their mother who had a wedding ceremony for one of her children three months ago for the past four days after she left his house at Gada area of Odo-Ona after a visit.
The family had also placed a missing  person advertorial on both the television and radio to announce the unknown whereabouts of their mother popularly known as Iya Iyanu.
The body of the deceased has since been deposited at a hospital mortuary at Ring Road, Ibadan, after some Sango (God of Thunder) worshipers were allowed to perform some rituals and spiritual exercises on her body on the tree.

Tragic.