There was drama at an Upper Area Court 1, Yola in Adamawa State after a Point of Sale (POS) operator, Umar Usman, attempted suicide in protest of a judgment that was not in his favour.
Usman was said to have gulped a bottle of a locally made pesticide following the ruling of presiding Judge, Hon. Shehu Mustapha, that he should pay back a N1.75m debt he owed his friend, Mustapha Baraya.
He was said to have borrowed N1.9 million from his friend to run a POS business but had only refunded N150,000.
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Following his refusal to pay the balance as agreed, his friend dragged him to court on February 13 for ‘criminal misappropriation and breach of trust’.
Usman and his father were given one month to repay the loan and they promised to do so once they harvested their rice farm but again reneged on their promise.
The court then ordered that Usman’s house which was given to him by his father be sold to raise the money to repay the loan.
At the sitting on Monday, Usman who came to court with the insecticide, entered the judge’s chamber and emptied the content into his mouth which made him vomit before losing consciousness.