PERUVIAN ALAN GARCIA: WAS HE TROUBLED OR WAS HE CORNERED?

ICHEOKU says what would make a man, a former president, take his own life for fear of and in order to avoid a criminal prosecution. Former President Alan Garcia of Peru, facing imminent arrest and prosecution for corruption turned a gun on his head and in a matter of seconds, ended his sojourn on this earth. 

ICHEOKU says why did he do it, when there were so many other ways he could have reacted to the arrest and several options he could have also exploited going forward. He could have called on the better side of his Peruvian people to accept that he did not do what he was being accused of doing and trusting the criminal justice system of Peru, proceeded to trial to defend himself. If found guilty, then appeal for a State's pardon or bravely do his time; but he chose differently. 

Whether it was a case of "I didn't do it" or "I didn't want to face consequences for my action" by the former president, nobody will now ever know as the former Peruvian President Alan Garcia has taken that information, which would have been unearthed at his trial, with him to his grave. It is either he was a troubled man who was too weak hearted to face justice and took the easy way out; or he was too ashamed to face his family and country men and women as the criminal justice system of Peru took its course, with him on the conveyor belt as a corrupt former public official. 

Regardless, these are now mere speculations, as the former president decided to do it his own way and he is now gone forever, and the rest are but speculations and Monday night quarterbacking. Adieu Presidente Alan Garcia.