Update: Photos Of Another Woman Who Tried To Commit Suicide In Lagos Lagoon Over Unpaid Loan

Few hours after the Lagos State Police Command rescued a woman, from committing suicide, another woman, Taiwo Titilayo Momoh, attempted to jump into the Lagoon from Third Mainland Bridge...

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni told newsmen at the Lagos Government Secretariat, Alausa, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria 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.

He said;

“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,” 

The commissioner 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 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 saying;

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

This is a wa , a real wa!