Police rescues woman from jumping off Third Mainland Bridge

The Lagos State Police Command has rescued a woman identified as Taiwo Titilayo Momoh, from jumping into the Lagoon from Third Mainland Bridge on Friday. This is coming few days after a medical doctor, Allwell Orji jumped into the lagoon from Third Mainland Bridge. His remains were retrieved from the water two days ago.

The State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni addressing newsmen on Friday, at the State Government Secretariat, Alausa, Lagos, said that Momoh was in a taxi heading towards Oworonshoki on Third Mainland Bridge when she told the taxi driver to stop on the bridge.

Owoseni said that the woman 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.

He said, “She attempted suicide by attempting to jump into the lagoon around Oworonshoki inward Mainland on Third Mainland Bridge.

“Fortunately for her, she was rescued. The woman was in a taxi and alighted on the bridge and wanted to commit suicide by jumping into the Lagoon.

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

Owoseni added that from his interaction 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.”

He said committing suicide was an offence under the law but that the police would try to talk the woman out of committing suicide.

The Police Commissioner assured that 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 and she still insists that she wants to end her life,” he said.

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