It has
emerged that Dr. Alwell Orji, the medical practitioner who took his life last
Sunday by jumping into the Lagos Lagoon, had attempted suicide a number of
times.
Sun's correspondent, who visited his family home
on Odunukan Street, Ebute-Ejigbo, off Morroco Road, near University of Lagos,
was told that the young man had four years ago attempted jumping down from the
family’s two-storey house. Only the intervention of neigbours staved off the
disaster.
“Four years ago he attempted to kill himself
and, thereafter, had tried doing so on a number of times,” a man who pleaded
anonymity said, adding, “since then, his family had been monitoring him. We
don’t know the kind of sickness he was suffering from, but we knew he was being
monitored. That was why he was assigned a driver to take him around.
“He was such a gentle boy, who never made any
trouble. His family has lived on
this street for long; his father died four years ago.
“Perhaps the driver who drove him didn’t know
about his condition because he was engaged about three months ago.”
Another neighbour said some concerned people
had gone to the police pleading for the driver’s release as he was innocent and
had no part in his former employer’s death.
-Sun News
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