Man Commits Suicide By Hanging In Lagos
Category: Lagos News
The corpse of a yet-to-be-identified man has been found dangling on a
rope tied to a tree at the NEPA Junction in the Agboroko community, in the Iba
Local Council Development Area of Lagos State.
Punch Metro
gathered that one of the workers at a mechanic shop close to the scene of the
incident found the corpse when he resumed work on the morning of April 20,
2023.
One of the mechanics at the workshop, Olasumbo Adewale, said
the deceased, who was dressed in a black T-shirt and a white short knicker,
reportedly committed the act with the use of a seat found around a vulcanizer
in the area.
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He said, “When I resumed work that morning, I saw that people had
gathered at a spot close to our workshop. Out of curiosity, I moved close to
the place and I was shocked when I saw that a young man had been hanged on a
tree close to a vulcaniser workshop.
“I quickly called the
vulcaniser to inform him about the situation and he rushed down to the scene.
It was when he arrived that he went to the Iba Police Station to report the
case. What we also discovered was that the man might have used the seat under
the tree to support himself when he committed the act because we found the
seat below his feet.”
A resident, Jamiu Awosoji, said efforts to
unravel the identity and family members of the deceased victim proved
abortive.
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“The place was crowded as people kept coming to look at the corpse. But
despite the number of people who gathered to look at the corpse, no one could
identify the victim. So, we felt he must have come from a far distance to
commit suicide in this area. The police came around after the case was
reported to them,” Awosoji said.
Another resident, who spoke to
our correspondent on condition of anonymity, said some traditionalists in the
community performed traditional rites before bringing down the corpse from the
tree.
The resident said, “When the traditionalists in the community
were informed about what happened, they came around, and performed some
rituals around the location where the incident happened.
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“After the traditional rites, they brought down the corpse, placed it on
the floor, covered it with some leaves and left. The corpse spent the whole
day there. It was the following morning that we discovered that the corpse was
no longer there. The vulcanizer who uses the place for business has been
refused to do his business at the scene of the incident.”
The
state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the
incident.
“It happened in Agboroko under Iba,” he said.
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