By Ademola Adegbamigbe
A woman, Mrs Abigael Ogunyinka, on Friday, 24 March 2017, jumped into the Lagos Lagoon at Ebute Ero, because of the N150,000 loan she obtained from a micro finance bank to boost her amala business, but which she could not pay back. However, she was rescued by maritime Samaritans (fishermen, sand dredgers, etc) around when a lady that followed her from her Alakuko home rushed to inform the Police. She asked the girl to follow her so that she could inform everyone, particularly her creditors that “I have not run away.” She told a TVC correspondent that it was the embarrassment of the debt that made her to decide taking her own life. It was a kind of loan gone haywire, possibly from LAPO (Lift Above Poverty Organisation) microfinance bank, popular among housewives, food sellers, provision retailers, other small market men and women in…
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