Barely 10 days after a man alighted from
a call cab and jumped into the Lagos Lagoon another young man has leapt from an
UBER car and jumped into the Lagoon on third mainland Bridge Lagos State.
The man, whose identity is being kept,
jumped into the Lagoon from the Third Mainland Bridge at around midnight. But,
fortunately, he landed on floating logs of wood beneath the Third Mainland
Bridge.
According to the cab driver, whose
identity is unknow, he carried him “from Igando and he insisted he pass through
the Third Mainland Bridge.
On getting to the bridge, the young man
asked him whether this was Third Mainland Bridge and he answered yes.
He said: " to my surprise he told
me that he was pressed and that I should wait for him to ease himself. I was
curious. At this time, he was forcing to me wait. because I don't want to wait
because of how people jumped into the Lagoon.
"To avoid being accused taking him
to kill himself I stylishly drove him to the point where Rapid Response Squad
policemen (RRS) were standing inward Lagos.
"I practically told him I was no
longer interested in the trip before I approached the police officers leaving
him inside the car."
An eyewitness at the scene said as soon
as the cab driver approached the police informing them of what his passenger
was telling him, he got down from the Volkswagen Jetta car and jumped into the
Lagoon but he landed on floating logs of
wood.
But before he jumped, one of the police
officers who saw him approached the railings of the bridge and persuaded him
not to jump.
He was thereafter rescued and he was
taken to Lagos State Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) from where he was referred to
Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), where he's under going
treatment.
Meanwhile, the incident was later reported at Adekunle Police Station, Yaba for
further investigation as to why he wanted to kill himself in that manner.
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