Unbearable frustration:

UB graduate sets herself on fire, dies

By Ajongakou Santos in Buea

An ex-student of the University of Buea believed to have graduated in 2013 is reported dead after setting herself on fire owing to the frustration of unemployment in the country. The Median learned from her neighbours that, the girl, Magdella who hails from Manyu in the South West Region of Cameroon committed suicide in the village after going jobless for three years; coupled with the numerous mockery and insults she got from the villagers and her relatives.

                As the story goes, Magdella’s friends and other people quickly intervened to save her from the suicidal act but failed to do anything meaningful because the burns were really deep. They however rushed her to the hospital, from where she died three days later; on Saturday, April 16, 2016.

                Reports said the girl often complained of how frustrated she had become owing to joblessness, and how all her friends have gained employment except her. She also always said she had dropped job applications in sundry offices but had never been called for an interview. Taking her life was therefore the best solution to her frustration.

                Her friend, Beatrice, who now runs a shop in Buea told reporters that she had proposed to the late Magdella to join her in the shop business and even went as far as arranging a place for her in Buea, but Magdella turned down the proposal and chose to move around searching for white-collar jobs, which often pushed her to seek miracles from men of God.

                Late Magdella graduated from the University of Buea in 2013 with a B.A (Bachelor of Arts Degree) in History. The story of her pathetic dead is just one of those things that befall unemployed graduates in Cameroon today.