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.”

Owoseni noted that committing suicide was an offence under the law but that the police would try to talk the woman out of committing suicide.

He said the woman would be taken through post-trauma programme to ensure that she had hope and not commit suicide, adding that the police would do a medical evaluation on her to ascertain her condition.

Owoseni lamented the rate at which people commit suicide in the country, describing it as worrisome, adding that the police had begun patrol of bridges across the state to forestall other cases of suicide.

He added that it was now an offence for individuals to walk on bridges in the state and that no vehicle would be allowed to stop on any bridge in the state henceforth in order to prevent suicide incidences.

“Right now, the woman is still in trauma and she still insists that she wants to end her life,” he said.

However, as the woman was being led from the RRS headquarters into a waiting police vehicle, she was confronted with several television cameras and still cameras and she reacted by saying that she was not a criminal and that her shots should not be taken.

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Unfortunately for her she was rescued.

Lol.Unfortunately serious?

He added that it was now an offence for individuals to walk on bridges in the state and that no vehicle would be allowed to stop on any bridge in the state henceforth in order to prevent suicide incidences.

But serious suicide is not cool.

Na wa oh

it is very wrong to not allow people enjoy their right to life as well as death...people should be allowed to die however and whenever they deemed fit.

So u mean i cannot waka on Majidun bridge again abi? Issokay

Why on earth will committing suicide be an offence?
Reminds me of that Fela's song:
"If you like you die
You die for nothing
Dem go carry your body go Police Station
You die wrongfully..."

Another woman just attempted suicide, apart from this one

Pesin no fit escape from torments of naija again?

Wetin dey happen gangan sef?How many of us una wan make we remain for lagos of una jump finish na? Just today we've had 2 separate cases

Am sure she voted shangi........... Sai bubu

The spate of suicide attempts inder the Buhari led govt is becoming worrisome .. ISTANDWITHBUHAR come and see fellow Nigerians taking up suicide than live because of hardship

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This is no longer funny o, a friend told me yesterday that he once contemplated on committing suicide. I blame bubu and his govt

Na wa

haha

ruggedised:
let fg fence that lagoon, we all must suffer the change together

Seconded

SalamRushdie:
The spate of suicide attempts inder the Buhari led govt is becoming worrisome .. ISTANDWITHBUHAR come and see fellow Nigerians taking up suicide than live because of hardship

And what are you waiting for? You need to join the suicide crew abeg make we know we wey go remain..


Why take taxi from her house to Third mainland when she can just buy snipper and sleep on bed...

yeye dey smell

She take taxi to third mainland to commit suicide? Atleast she will pay more 1k naira for Taxi why snipper is just 400 naira..