Tragedy was Thursday averted in Lagos after a 17-year-old boy, attempted to jump into lagoon for losing N6,000 and a phone to ‘Area Boys’.

But for the timely intervention of operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command, the distraught boy would have committed suicide by jumping from the 3 Mainland Bridge into the Lagos Lagoon.

The boy, Lanre (not real name), a secondary school leaver, is the second born of four children and the first boy of his mother.

According to a RRS rider on regular patrol of the bridge, a roving mechanic drew their attention to a lone teenager, standing on the bridge and looking into the lagoon curiously. On getting to the scene, he was standing on the crash barrier, ready to jump into lagoon before he was grabbed by the legs by the RRS officials and taken to their headquarters for counselling and further investigations.

Lanre, after receiving counselling from the Commander, RRS, Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP Olatunji Disu, disclosed that he decided to jump into the lagoon after losing N6, 000 and a mobile phone to ‘Area Boys’ in Lagos Island.

He explained that his mother had given him N6, 000 at about 4:00 p.m. to get food stuff at Ita Faaji Market, when some miscreants collected his phone and the money from him.

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HungerBAD:
Sad.

I never believed I could say this,but God bless the Nigeria Police for saving a life.

The disturbing story here,is the boy himself.

A 17 yr old thinking suicide is the answer is very dangerous,I mean what would make a young man think killing himself would solve anything? at his age,people look forward to life and not towards ending it.

The state if insecurity inside lagos Island is getting too much,Ambode please look into it.

HungerBAD:
Sad.

I never believed I could say this,but God bless the Nigeria Police for saving a life.

The disturbing story here,is the boy himself.

A 17 yr old thinking suicide is the answer is very dangerous,I mean what would make a young man think killing himself would solve anything? at his age,people look forward to life and not towards ending it.

The state if insecurity inside lagos Island is getting too much,Ambode please look into it.

HungerBAD:
Sad.

I never believed I could say this,but God bless the Nigeria Police for saving a life.

The disturbing story here,is the boy himself.

A 17 yr old thinking suicide is the answer is very dangerous,I mean what would make a young man think killing himself would solve anything? at his age,people look forward to life and not towards ending it.

The state if insecurity inside lagos Island is getting too much,Ambode please look into it.

thesicilian:
You've not even seen one-third of the hardship in life and you're already planning suicide. You must be on a very long thing!

greatgod2012:
Thank God for the timely intervention of the police.


However, some things are not right here......


For the boy to have thought of suicide after loosing the money to those miscreants, it means, it's either the mother who sent him to the market, is too strict to be confided in or he himself has never been trustworthy, and he thought since his mother won't believe him, its better not to go home at all.


Lesson.......... let us all as parents take it easy on our kids, let's make them our friends, so that when anything happens to them, they will spill it all out for us instead of thinking about drastic and terrible solution, which would surely not have a good ending.