One Joy Ngarfarm Iorza
of Usar community in Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State has committed suicide for testing positive to
HIV/AIDS.
Sources said that the lady, whose had completed arrangement
to wed in the next few days, decided to end it all when medical report
indicated that she and her husband-to-be tested positive to the dreaded
disease.
It will be noted that some Christian denominations have made
it mandatory for intending couple to have medical test from designated and
approved hospitals before agreeing to join intending couples together as
husbands and wives.
The source, however, said that the mandatory test blew
opened the status of the intending couple who were confirmed to have the disease.
However, the bride-to-be, who could not withstand the shame
and stigma, was said to have hung herself on a tree at a bush nearby her family
house.
On discovering the ugly development, the community and the
family of the deceased were said to have held the groom, whose name was given
as Anodoaver Anwa responsible for the fate
that befell their daughter.
The incident was said to
have been reported at the police station, while the Public Relations Officer
PPRO of Benue State Police Command, DSP Dan Ezeala, who confirmed the story
said investigation was ongoing to unravel the circumstances surrounding the
whole incident
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