LASPOTECH Student Jilted By Lover, Drinks Sniper

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

A 34-year old student of Lagos State Polytechnic, Joseph Mayowa, has reportedly committed suicide in Lagos after he drank an insecticide know as Sniper for being jilted by his lover identified as Bolaji Olokodana, 24.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the incident happened at Eyita area of Ikorodu, Lagos, where the deceased resides and enrolled as a part time student.
This was disclosed by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bala Elkana.
He said that on 31st May, 2019, at about 5.30am, Shagamu Road Police Station, Ikorodu, received information that one Joseph Mayowa, 34, a part time student of Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu Campus, Department of Hospitality Management Technology, drank a poisonous chemical identified as sniper. The police moved into action, went to the scene, recovered the corpse and deposited at the mortuary for autopsy report.

DSP Elkana said that preliminary investigation revealed that the deceased did so following a misunderstanding between him and his girlfriend, Olokodana Bolaji, 24, who was also a student of the same institution.
He was rushed to the hospital by his neighbours following an alarm raised by his girlfriend but eventually died.
The lover was arrested and detained at the station for interrogation.
Elkana revealed that in the statement of his girlfriend, she told the Police investigators that she had dated the deceased for about nine years and that he was fond of beating her. She narrated that while she was with the deceased in his room, they had a quarrel and he as usual it resorted into physical violence. She reportedly ran into the rest room and upon return she found him gasping for breath with an empty bottle of sniper beside him.
Elkana said the police from the Homicide Department of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, visited the scene at Eyita area, Ikorodu. The corpse of the said Joseph Mayowa was deposited at General Hospital mortuary for autopsy while the girlfriend was invited for questioning. Investigation is ongoing to determine whether it was actually a suicide case.