Benue: Bride-to-be commits suicide after HIV test

-Makurdi

One Joy Ngarfarm Iorza of Usar community
in Kwande Local Government Area of Benue
State has committed suicide for testing
positive to HIV/AIDS.
Impeccable sources told Sunday Tribune 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, told Sunday Tribune
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.