PHOTOS: Man Sets Self Ablaze In Abuja To Protest Economic Hardship

As reported by AIT, a a middle-aged man Mr. Fredrick Onuigbo just few hours to the new year committed suicide by setting himself ablaze in Abuja, the Federal Capital territory on the 23rd December, 2013.
 

It is reported that Mr Fredrick faced an ejection threat from the Landlord, his 7 Children are out of school,  his mother’s corpse was in the mortuary, he had no single food in his house, he had lost everything in his business and he was faced with loan repayment from a Micro-finance bank.
 

Whilst arrangement was in top gear for the yuletide for many families, 
According to the family members, Late Fredrick wondered why “Economic Growth” is no longer about food on table, roof above the head, affordable medical facilities, good education…. he was caught in the web of economic depreciation which has been choking him for years now.
 

However, the police have evacuated the corpse to the mortuary of the General Hospital, Kubwa, Abuja.
See graphic photo below