It was gathered that a large crowd besieged the four-story office complex, once the incident became public knowledge, with many wondering why such a man would end his own life.
Mr. Oriri, it was learnt, was the Managing Director of Awore Consult, a firm that is into educational consultancy, for people seeking admission to universities, schools in Ghana, universities in the UK.
An Isoko man from Delta State, Mr. Oriri has seven children, 6 boys and 1 girl.
According to neighbours, one of the sons lives in USA while two others live in Germany and Ghana, respectively. All of them, the neighbours, continued, are all graduates.
A family member who craved anonymity, could not fathom why he would have to take his own life.
The family members said:
"Why should James do this kind of thing to bring shame to the family? Was he the only one owing, everybody owes; who is not owing in the first place? To owe is no more shameful”.
He told The Sun that the deceased was owing some people some undisclosed amount of money, and added that the money was less than N2m.
“His brothers had called the people he owed and pleaded with them to give them, till say by the end of the month, to settle the debts and the people agreed. James was aware of this arrangement?
“What is today’s date? November 11, which means in less than three weeks, the debt would be fully paid, and he would be free. But he decided to take his life in a most shameful way.
“This was not the first time he was owing. He had owed more than N4m before, it was fully settled. What is N1.5m or an amount a little higher than that?” the family member asked rhetorically?
He was however quick to add that late Oriri was also having some health challenges. But he refused to provide any further details as to the nature of the ailment.
A neighbour, who also does business within the same complex, and who also asked not to be named, described late Oriri as an easy-going person, who was at peace with everyone.
He however suggested that Oriri may be facing some challenges in his marriage, as until his death, he had been sleeping in the office in the past three years and buying food from “Mama put”.
The source further pointed out that it appears [all] the children also took side with their mother, thus abandoning their father.
Lending credence to the fact that late Oriri had challenges with his marriage, some neighbours who know his wife said, “she just came here and didn’t do as if anything happened and she has gone back to her business at Alaba Rago”.
The Sun’s finding also revealed that Oriri ’s Secretary, a female, kept one pair of the office key in her possession, while Oriri held the other.
After close of work on Thursday, the Secretary left for home, while her boss stayed behind, as usual.
When the Secretary resumed work on Friday morning and opened the office, she saw the lifeless body of her boss dangling from the hook of a ceiling fan, she yelled, and attracted their neighbours.
Once the neighbours showed up, contacts were made to members of his family, who came and later called the police from Satellite Town Division, Agboju.
It was further gathered that he may have used an electric cable, which was carefully knotted and tied to an iron ceiling fan hook, to hang himself.
A source said that a ritual or incantation was done before he was brought down, because according to him, late Oriri committed a sacrilege, a thing every African culture abhors.
One of his sons, a man in his late 20s and the last but one, accompanied the corpse to Police Station.
He told The Sun that the deceased was owing some people some undisclosed amount of money, and added that the money was less than N2m.
“His brothers had called the people he owed and pleaded with them to give them, till say by the end of the month, to settle the debts and the people agreed. James was aware of this arrangement?
“What is today’s date? November 11, which means in less than three weeks, the debt would be fully paid, and he would be free. But he decided to take his life in a most shameful way.
“This was not the first time he was owing. He had owed more than N4m before, it was fully settled. What is N1.5m or an amount a little higher than that?” the family member asked rhetorically?
He was however quick to add that late Oriri was also having some health challenges. But he refused to provide any further details as to the nature of the ailment.
A neighbour, who also does business within the same complex, and who also asked not to be named, described late Oriri as an easy-going person, who was at peace with everyone.
He however suggested that Oriri may be facing some challenges in his marriage, as until his death, he had been sleeping in the office in the past three years and buying food from “Mama put”.
The source further pointed out that it appears [all] the children also took side with their mother, thus abandoning their father.
Lending credence to the fact that late Oriri had challenges with his marriage, some neighbours who know his wife said, “she just came here and didn’t do as if anything happened and she has gone back to her business at Alaba Rago”.
The Sun’s finding also revealed that Oriri ’s Secretary, a female, kept one pair of the office key in her possession, while Oriri held the other.
After close of work on Thursday, the Secretary left for home, while her boss stayed behind, as usual.
When the Secretary resumed work on Friday morning and opened the office, she saw the lifeless body of her boss dangling from the hook of a ceiling fan, she yelled, and attracted their neighbours.
Once the neighbours showed up, contacts were made to members of his family, who came and later called the police from Satellite Town Division, Agboju.
It was further gathered that he may have used an electric cable, which was carefully knotted and tied to an iron ceiling fan hook, to hang himself.
A source said that a ritual or incantation was done before he was brought down, because according to him, late Oriri committed a sacrilege, a thing every African culture abhors.
One of his sons, a man in his late 20s and the last but one, accompanied the corpse to Police Station.
