Another
young man, who is yet to be identified, around midnight on Thursday, leapt from
an Uber car and jumped into the Lagos Lagoon.
This is
coming barely 10 days after a man alighted from a cab and jumped into
the same Lagos Lagoon.
The man
jumped into the Lagoon from the Third Mainland Bridge at midnight, sources in
the Rapid Response Squad told Punch on Thursday.
The Punch gathered
that he landed on floating logs of wood beneath the Third Mainland Bridge.
The cab
driver told officials of the RRS that he picked the passenger from Igando, a
suburb of Lagos.
He said,
“I carried him (the passenger) from Igando and he insisted I pass through the
Third Mainland Bridge.
“On
getting to the bridge, he asked me whether this was Third Mainland Bridge and I
answered yes.
“He told
me that he was pressed and that I should wait for him to ease himself. I was
curious. At this time, he was forcing me to wait. I stylishly drove him to the
point where the RRS men were standing inward Lagos.
“I told
him I was no longer interested in the trip before I approached the police
officers leaving him inside the car.”
A source,
who is also an eyewitness, said, “As soon as the cab driver approached the
police informing them of what his passenger was telling him, he (the victim)
got down from the Volkswagen Jetta car and jumped into the Lagoon but he landed
on floating logs of wood.
“Before he
jumped, one of the police officers who saw him approached the railings of the
bridge and persuaded him not to jump.”
The Punch learnt that the victim was
rescued but sustained varying degrees of injury.
It was
also gathered that the victim was rushed to the Lagos State Teaching Hospital,
where he was later referred to Lagos University Teaching Hospital.
“The
incident was reported at Adekunle Police Station, Yaba,” The Punch was
told.
- Punch
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