The Lagos State Police Command has rescued a woman, Taiwo
Titilayo Momoh who attempted to jump into the Lagoon from Third Mainland Bridge
on Friday.
Taiwo’s case is coming few days after a medical
practitioner, Allwell Orji jumped into the Lagoon from Third Mainland Bridge as
his remains was retrieved from the water on Wednesday.
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni told
newsmen at the Rapid Response Squad, (RRS), headquarters, Lagos Government
Secretariat, Alausa, Lagos, on Friday that Momoh was in a taxi heading towards
Oworonshoki on Third Mainland Bridge when she told the taxi driver to stop on
the bridge.
According to Owoseni, the woman was about to jump into the
water when a police patrol team on a routine patrol on the Third Mainland
Bridge sighted her and rushed to save her before she jumped into the Lagoon.
“She attempted suicide by attempting to jump into the Lagoon
around Oworonshoki inward Mainland on Third Mainland Bridge.
Unfortunately for her, she was rescued. The woman was in a
taxi and alighted on the bridge and wanted to commit suicide by jumping into
the Lagoon.
“The police patrol team sighted her and rushed to rescue her
before she jumped into the Lagoon,” he said.
The police boss said from his interaction with the woman,
she had depression as a result of unpaid loans, adding that “she is still
insisting that she wants to end her life.”
Source:Guardian.ng
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