Suicide at Metro TV

A staff of Metropolitan Entertainment Television (Metro TV), Wahab Moses, is reported to have committed suicide, citing low remuneration.

Sources said the 33-year-old man who works as a security guard and cleaner at the TV station, also performed all sorts of chores, yet receives a meager salary.

The deceased was said to have contacted management to bail him out of a financial challenge, but his request was not granted because of an outstanding indebtedness to a bank, coupled with low net salary.

Wahab, who was married with two children, needed the money badly to organize an outdooring and naming ceremony for his second child.

Frustrated by his inability to raise money to name his child and keep his home, he decided to end his life on the dawn of Monday April 6, 2009, rather than face the shame that awaited him.

Wahab, who lived at La in Accra, a predominantly Ga community where outdooring ceremonies are viewed as important, dreaded the humiliation of not being able to conform and so decided to end it all.

Sources close to the TV station disclosed that after the incident, a durbar was organized by management where the substantive and more pressing subject of low salaries was shelved for trivialities.

Many staff members of the station think the issue of low remuneration should be tackled now because it is affecting morale.

Wahab’s death brings to two the number of Metro TV staff who have died this year.

In the first instance, a worker was said to have been found dead in one of the toilet facilities at the station but the cause of death could not be established.

The issue of low remuneration, according to some workers, cuts across a large section of the staff list. The workers are hopeful that with the occurrence of this unfortunate event, management would sit up and workout a better package for staff.

The body of the deceased has been deposited at the Police Hospital Mortuary awaiting autopsy.