An unidentified
man, said to be mentally imbalanced, was said to have allegedly killed himself
in Ifako Ijaiye area of Lagos after allegedly smoking Indian hemp.
Sunday
Independent gathered
from residents of Iju road, that the incident occurred on Saturday, June 28,
where the man was found dead inside a gutter in the area.
According to residents,
the man was noticed smoking Indian hemp very early in the morning during the
environmental exercise conducted every last Saturday of the month in Lagos.
“He may not have eaten
any food that fateful morning as a petty trader in the area, said that the man,
who usually tied some rags around his legs and waist region, begged for money
from people”, a source said.
A police officer at Pen
Cinema police division in Agege, told our correspondent that it was a woman who
came out of her house to participate in the environmental exercise that saw the
body of the man and raised an alarm.
Immediately, the
attention of the police was drawn to the incident, and the police in turn
called in officials of the Lagos State Environmental Office in Alausa, who
arrived on time to take the corpse away.
Ngozi Braide, Lagos
police image maker, confirmed the incident in her press statement.
According to her, the
unidentified male corpse was found along Iju Road, Ifako Ijaiye, without any
mark of violence on the body.
The body has been
removed to Orile Agege General Hospital mortuary for autopsy, while police
officers from Pen Cinema Division are investigating the incident.
A sane man must have sold that hemp to the insane human...
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