80-Year-Old Man Hangs Self Inside Kitchen

By Kunmi Dada

The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed that an 80-year-old man, Isiyaka Ayinde, committed suicide inside his kitchen at the Watch Tower in the Araromi Imota area of the state.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident to an online medium on Friday, 8 March, 2024, adding that due to age and religious convictions, the deceased’s family insisted that the body be buried immediately.

 “The scene has been visited by the DCB personnel of the division, and photographs were taken.

“The family of the deceased is not interested in depositing the body at the mortuary but rather prefer burying the corpse immediately as a result of the age and religious inclination of the deceased, ” Hundeyin said.

It was gathered that the incident occurred at about 7:30 p.m. on Thursday.

A police source quoting a tenant in the compound, the deceased hung himself with a rope in the kitchen.

“He heard his children shouting that he should come and see Baba in the kitchen. When he ran into the kitchen, he saw the lifeless body of the tenant hanging on a rope that was tied to the burglary proof of one of the windows in the kitchen,” the police source said.