The Lagos State Police Command stated a 65-year-old visually impaired man, Ewenla Adetomiwa, was rescued after making an attempt to commit suicide by leaping into the lagoon alongside the Third Mainland Bridge.
PUNCH On-line learnt that the incident befell round 2:30 p.m. on September 4, 2024.
The spokesperson for the state Police Command, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this to PUNCH On-line on Sunday.
In keeping with stories, the sufferer had introduced his two kids to the Third Mainland Bridge, planning to finish his life, believing that the federal government would take care of them after his dying.
Nonetheless, passersby, realising the person’s intentions, intervened and stopped him earlier than he might leap into the lagoon.
Hundeyin said, “There was a misery name {that a} man along with his two kids tried to commit suicide by attempting to leap into the lagoon on the third mainland bridge within the state.
“He was prevented by a superb Samaritan who alerted the police by way of the management room. Upon the receipt of the knowledge, a group of policemen was despatched to the scene the place the sufferer, who lived in Ikorodu, and his two kids have been seen on the bridge.
“The sufferer and his 16-year-old woman and 12-year-old boy have been taken to the station. Throughout interrogation, the person admitted that he meant to commit suicide to allow the federal government to take cost of his kids’s wellbeing if he had succeeded.”
Equally, the command’s spokesperson added that on August 30, 2024, an 18-year-old boy named Elijah, believed to be mentally unstable, was additionally rescued from making an attempt to leap into the identical lagoon.
The police promptly contacted the sufferer’s household and later handed him over to their care.
PUNCH On-line stories that in June 2024, the Fast Response Squad of the state command additionally rescued an American citizen from making an attempt to commit suicide on the Third Mainland Bridge.
