45-year-old father of nine children commits suicide

A 45-year-old father of nine identified as Mr Kwasi Agyei has allegedly committed suicide over economic hardship at Adankwame in the Atwima Nwabiagya North District of the Ashanti Region.

According to residents in the area, Mr. Agyei had been complaining of economic hardship and his inability to take care of the nine children prior to his death.

The deceased reportedly died after drinking something suspected to be poison leaving behind the nine children to the care of his jobless wife.

The wife of the deceased, Akosua Asantewaa in an interview with the media on Monday, May 8, 2023, said her husband died at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.

“I have just given birth to our ninth child and because of that we have been living with my mother in our family house, my late husband visited and asked that I bring him food, I took my time in preparing the food, and upon getting to the room I saw him lying on the floor”.

“I later saw a liquid on a small bottle suspected to be a poison and so I raised alarm and he was immediately rushed to the hospital “.

“He died a day after and we were told that the substance he drank was poison “

Now I have been left with nine children to look after but with no job.

Madam Akosua Asantewaa appealed to the general public to help her raise Ghc2000 to start her petty trading business in order to make ends meet.