Police to analyse call records of doctor

Owoseni

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni, yesterday disclosed that the command was already making moves to analyse the phone conversations of Dr. Allwell Oji, who jumped into the Third Mainland Bridge Lagoon on Sunday.

According to Owoseni, the move was part police investigation, to get to the root of Oji’s suicide.

He said: “I and the deceased’s mother were at the scene on the Third Mainland Bridge. We recovered his phone and we are going to used technology to analyse his last conversation. We’ll make our findings public after investigation.”

Owoseni stressed that it was a criminal offence for anyone to commit suicide.

Owoseni said: “If it was in the Nigeria Police Force, the policeman who commits suicide would be charged and dismissed for taking his life.”

The number one policeman in the state, who apologized for declaring the body recovered on Tuesday as that of the late Oji, explained that when the corpse was recovered by the Marine Police on Tuesday, the doctor’s family, boss and driver said it was not Oji.

Owoseni used the opportunity to declare that Oji didn’t leave any suicide note in his car as was being speculated by many.

The late Oji’s colleague at Mt. Sinai Hospital, Dr. Kingmate John, said Oji has been working with the hospital for about four years as a resident doctor and was always on night duty.

He said: “On the day of the incident, he was supposed to be on night duty. No one suspected anything. No matter where Dr. Oji may be in Lagos, ones it is time for his duty, he would rush down. Many of our patients, who are used to him, are yet to come to term with the situation. One patient was at the hospital that Sunday waiting to see him. We just can’t believe that he did what we heard.

“The late doctor’s mother always comes to the hospital to see him with food. Nothing suggests that he was going through any depression. When he is not happy and you ask him, he will tell you ‘I am not happy.’ He was born at Ebute-Metta branch of Mt. Sinai Hospital. After his graduation from medical school, he came back to the same hospital to work. He was an intelligent and humble doctor.”

Oji was described as someone who was willing to always assist and make people happy. Nurses, cleaners and security personnel were all full of grief over the incident.