People have been left in a state of shock after a young man killed himself at Ikeja police barracks.
Suicide man (File photo)
A 27-year-old man last Saturday allegedly committed suicide at the Police Barracks, Ikeja. The man, whose name was yet to be ascertained, allegedly hanged himself on the ceiling fan in the apartment he was occupying.
The Nation gathered that the deceased was a brother to a mobile policeman posted to Operation Lafiya Dole.
The policeman was said to have left his house for him in order to help him financially.
A source said the deceased in his suicide note wrote that he was tired of suffering.
“He wrote that he was tired of this life. He was tired of suffering and could not go on. He begged his parents and relations to forgive him. He said he knew the pains they would go through, but he just had to go.
“I don’t know his name, but I know that he was living in the apartment of a mobile policeman. He was a cousin to the policeman.
“Maybe, it is hardship that made him to commit suicide. It is really sad. Policemen from the division evacuated his body,” the source said.
Efforts to get official reaction from spokesman Chike Oti were unsuccessful last night.