By ZAGAZOLA MAKAMA

“I have nothing left. My family abandoned me. My church disowned me. They said I stole N3.8 million, something I know nothing about.”

These were the heart-wrenching words left behind by Dolapo Augustine Awolola, whose lifeless body was discovered inside a classroom at Iworoko Community High School in Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government Area of Ekiti State.

Zagazola gathered that the tragedy unfolded on July 15 when a school security guard, Mr. Sunday Salami, found Awolola lying face-up, motionless, dressed in the white garment of the Celestial Church of Christ, a gold-plated necklace around his neck, a man once revered in faith, now broken by shame, betrayal, and despair.

Inside his pocket, alongside a black purse and Android phone, was the suicide note, a gut-wrenching testimony of a man consumed by false accusations and societal rejection.

In the note, Awolola wrote that he was accused of stealing ?3.8 million, an allegation he insisted was false. But the weight of judgment, not just from strangers but from those closest to him, his own family and his church, became too much to bear.

“Even my own people refused to hear me. My church turned their back on me. I can’t survive this disgrace. I don’t want to continue in a world where my name is already destroyed.”

No signs of physical violence were observed on his body, according to the preliminary assessment by police operatives who arrived the scene and later evacuated the corpse to the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital morgue for autopsy.

Dolapo’s story is one of many unheard cries in a society quick to judge and slow to forgive a quiet descent into hopelessness masked by outward dignity.

He chose a school, a place of learning, as the final chapter of his life, perhaps hoping that his death would teach a lesson his life couldn’t.

The family of the deceased has been contacted, and investigations are ongoing to unravel the circumstances that led to his tragic end.

But in the silence he left behind, one message remains clear: injustice, especially within families and communities, can kill more swiftly than any weapon. (Zagazola)