Man Commits Suicide Over Wife�s Confession

Benjamin Kwaku Owusu, a 40-year-old former Manager of Unity Oil Filling Station in Suhum, has committed suicide by drinking DDT Gamullio 20 insecticide. A family spokesperson who spoke to the Ghana News Agency on condition of anonymity said Owusu and his wife lived at Suhum and had been married for five years but never had a child. He said the situation often developed into misunderstanding between them but later the wife got pregnant and left for her home town. According to the spokesperson, whiles Owusu was preparing for the wife to deliver, he had a shocking message from the wife that the pregnancy belonged to another man and not him. He said Owusu, who had a shock, rushed into his room and drunk the DDT Insecticide and fell unconscious. �Owusu was rushed to the hospital but died soon after he was admitted,� he said. When the police at Suhum was contacted, they confirmed the story and said the body of the deceased had since been buried after post mortem examination at the Suhum Government Hospital.