Jude Nicholas, the President of Nigerian Universities Education Students’ Association (NUESA), Faculty of Education, University of Ibadan, who had gone missing after sharing a 26-page long suicide note has been found alive a day after he went missing, IgbereTV reports.
Nicholas had sent a 26-page suicide note to friends and vanished. For one whole day, family and friends looked for him to no avail and his story was shared online as they begged for help to locate him.
A relative who took to Twitter to beg for help in finding him has now given an update. She said he has been found and thanked those who helped spread the message. No further detail was given.
Nicholas’ plight began in 2017 when he had surgery for hernia. During the surgery, the doctor tampered with a major vein that supplies blood from his heart to his legs. Since then, he’s been going in and out hospital, battling to save his legs.
He said the damaged veins became varicose veins and risks becoming gangrene which could lead to amputation.
He added photos of his legs in the suicide not he typed.
He said he kept his health challenges to himself, using whatever money he had to treat himself, until he became so bad that he began visiting hospital up to three times each week as walking became too painful.
He then opened up to a lecturer at school, asking for help from Univeristy of Ibadan. However, his efforts to get help proved abortive.
He said it got to the point where he began “using money gotten legally and illegally” to address his health issues.
He said money he made through cryptocurrency trading went towards treatment. He added that he also dipped hands into his faculty NUESA purse to get money to treat himself.
He said he can’t keep living this way, adding that even if he doesn’t take his life, he will “still be dying soon”.
“Death is inevitable,” he wrote.
“At this point, to die is peace for me,” he added.
Also, the Speaker of NUESA FLC University of Ibadan sent a message on Wednesday, 15th December which confirms that Nicholas has been found and receiving treatment.
The message read:
“Good morning Hon. Members. Thank you for your concern for nicholas. We found him already and he’s receiving treatment currently.”
