Nigerian man disappeared in Italy, after ten day found dead in a park

Edos Lawrence Akhigbe, 45, was in Italy to help his four children in Nigeria: has lost his work and took his life.

He was in Italy to work and feed the four children left in Nigeria. Left without an occupation, desperate, he decided to do away with it. The dramatic story starring Edos Lawrence Akhigbe, 45-year-old Nigerian, regular in Italy. His body was found on Sunday morning among the trees of a green area in the center of Nembro (Bergamo), between the cemetery and the middle schools, known as Bosco di Città. They had been looking for him for about ten days.

The man, no crime charges, had arrived in Italy a few years ago to support his family, wife and four children, who lived in the African country. After working as a worker in several companies in the area, in recent months he had been fired. Without an occupation, he could no longer send money to his loved ones. No peace was given. And in the end he chose to kill himself.

So, one day, riding his yellow bicycle he reached the park and took his own life. Some countrymen with whom he lived in an apartment in Via Vittoria in Nembro, not seeing him come back, after a few hours had raised the alarm. For ten days, however, no one had noticed that body, in an area of ​​passage.

After some reports for strange smells in the area, on Sunday one of the volunteers of the Civil Protection Nembrese noticed his two wheels parked along a road leading to the public garden. He then alerted the Carabinieri of Alzano Lombardo, who arrived at the site have discovered the body of the Nigerian, in an advanced state of decomposition. There are no doubts about the causes of death.

As established by the mayor Claudio Cancelli, the City has taken charge of the expenses for the burial of Edos Lawrence Akhigbe, which took place on Wednesday, and for the funeral mass, celebrated on Thursday by the parish priest Don Santo Nicoli.