A 30-year-old driver, James Ayiem, at Half-Assini in Western Region has allegedly committed suicide.<\/p>\n
He was found hanging on a mango tree with a twine near the Presbyterian Church at Peace Town, Half-Assini around 0600 hours on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Jomoro District Crime Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Charles Mensah, told the GNA on Saturday.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”lZD0WbDQtoty5IOG1tSU9D2r2VjrUuJ8″]He indicated that residents of the area woke up to the sad event and raised the alarm.<\/p>\n
According to the Crime Officer, his car owner Mr Vincent Buah, and one Zakali Alhassan reported the incident to the Police.<\/p>\n
He said the body had since been deposited at the Half-Assini Government Hospital morgue pending autopsy and investigations.<\/p>\n
ASP Mensah said no arrest had so far been made.<\/p>\n
A number of people besieged the scene of the incident and mortuary to catch glimpse of the body.<\/p>\n
Four other suicides<\/strong><\/p>\n This suicide case follows similar ones that occurred at New Tafo<\/strong><\/a><\/span> in the Eastern Region, the University of Ghana<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, Kwame Nkrumah University<\/strong><\/a><\/span> of Science and Technology and Achimota<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n About four suicide cases have been recorded in different parts of the country within the last three weeks.<\/p>\n Invest in mental health to reduce suicides \u2013 Dr Osafo\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n A clinical psychologist and suicidologist at the University of Ghana, Dr. Joseph Osafo, has bemoaned the lack of support for mental health related issues in the country.<\/p>\n According to him, this situation has contributed to the increasing trend of suicide in the country.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: citifmonline.com with additional files from GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A 30-year-old driver, James Ayiem, at Half-Assini in Western Region has allegedly committed suicide. He was found hanging on a mango tree with a twine near the Presbyterian Church at Peace Town, Half-Assini around 0600 hours on Saturday. The Jomoro District Crime Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Charles Mensah, told the GNA on Saturday. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":209824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}