Woman Who Attempted To Jump Into Lagoon Still Insisting Of Comitting Suicide – Lagos CP

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni has revealed that the Police will continue to monitor, Mrs Taiwo Titilayo Momoh, the woman who attempted to commit suicide by jumping into the Lagoon because she’s insisting on ending her life after she was rescued. 

Owoseni said Friday while briefing newsmen at the headquarters of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) in Alausa, Ikeja 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, a textile dealer on Lagos Island 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.

“She tried to commit suicide by attempting to jump into the Lagoon around Oworonshoki inward Mainland on Third Mainland Bridge. Unfortunately for her, she was rescued. The woman alighted from a taxi on the bridge,  put off her shoes and was wrapping her dress around her when men of RRS 226 prevented her from jumping.

“The police patrol team sighted her and rushed to rescue her before she jumped into the Lagoon,” he said.

The Commissioner said from his interactions 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 noted that committing suicide was an offence under the law but the police would try to talk the woman out of committing suicide.

He said the woman would be taken through post-trauma programme to ensure that she had hope and not commit suicide, adding that the police would do a medical evaluation  on her to ascertain her condition.

“Right now, the woman is still in trauma,” he said.

However, as the woman was being led from the RRS headquarters into a waiting police vehicle, she was confronted with several television cameras, she reacted, saying she was not a criminal and that her shots should not be taken.

“As you are seeing me like this, well dressed, you would think that I am living fine. But in my heart is a heavy burden. A burden of huge debt, disappointment from trusting people and abandoned by a son I love and bought a car for. I am a moving corpse, “she said.