EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the alleged suicide of an 80-year-old man in the Imota area of the state. SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday.
Hundeyin stated that Mustapha, the landlord of the deceased, reported the death at the Imota Police Division around 12:26 a.m. on Friday.
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He said Mustapha reported that at about 7.30 p.m. on Thursday, while at his house located at Watchtower Street, Araromi in Imota, he heard the children of the deceased shouting and calling him to come and see their father in the kitchen.
According to Mustapha, he ran into their kitchen, and saw the lifeless body of his tenant, called Isiaka Ayinde, 80-year-old, hanging on a rope that was tied to the burglary railing of one of the windows in the kitchen.
“The scene has been visited by DCB personnel of Imota Division and photographs taken.
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“Though, the family of the deceased is not interested in depositing the body in the mortuary, rather, they preferred to bury the corpse immediately, due to age and religious inclination,” Hundeyin said.
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