Lagos suicide: “Body recovered not Doctor Orji’s” – family says
The search for the body of a Nigerian doctor who apparently committed suicide in Lagos is yet to bear fruit.
Marine Police, Tuesday, recovered a body from the waters under Third Mainland Bridge. But the family of a Doctor Allwell Orji, who jumped off the bridge into the Lagos Lagoon, said the body recovered was not his.
Spokesperson for the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Kehinde Adebayo, made the revelation following news of the recovery.
“About five members of his family were there with the driver; also, the Commissioner of Police, General Manager of Inland Waterways and other relevant agencies were there,” Adebayo said.
“The family members looked at the body and confirmed it was not the body of Dr Orji; the clothes on the recovered corpse did not tally with what Orji was said to have been putting on,” he said.
After police found the body, commissioner Fatai Owoseni reportedly told a popular TV station the body was Orji’s.
But when Newsroom called Adebayo, he urged caution and told us to wait till he reached the spot, around Onikan end of Third Mainland Bridge, where the body was recovered.
“The family have been told to report there to identify the body,” Adebayo said.
It turned out that Orji’s family said the body didn’t belong to their apparently late son.
