The Oyo State Hearth Service has introduced that it rescued a 45-year-old man from committing suicide in Iseyin city.
Maroof Akinwande, who’s the Chairman of the Hearth Service, disclosed this in an announcement made obtainable to journalists in Ibadan on Wednesday.
Akinwande famous that the incident occurred on the Oja-Illa space in Iseyin on Tuesday night time.
He mentioned that the person was rescued alive from an electrical pole when he tried to commit suicide.
He added that the person has been handed over to the private assistant to the Chairman of the native authorities space.
“On getting there, it was a person of about 45 years of age trying to commit suicide by climbing a stay electrical avenue mild pole on Tuesday night time.
“Our officers rapidly swung into motion by making use of all crucial rescue gear, and the person was rescued alive from the electrical avenue mild pole and handed over to the private assistant to the Chairman, Iseyin Native Authorities,” he mentioned.
Iseyin, Oyo State, has in recent times confronted tragic incidents of suicide. In August 2017, Grasp Adewuyi Kehinde, a 14-year-old JSS 3 scholar of First Baptist Mannequin Faculty, Koso, took his personal life. Reviews indicated that Kehinde, feeling excluded from his elder sister’s naming ceremony in Lagos, hanged himself at house after a earlier try involving ingestion of chemical substances was interrupted by neighbours.
The boy’s dad and mom, Mr and Mrs Adewuyi, who’re a driver and a dealer respectively, had been described as indulgent towards Kehinde and his twin brother. Police sources on the time famous that the tragedy may have been prevented had the preliminary suicide try been reported to authorities.
On Thursday, seventeenth December 2023, the city witnessed one other suicide when a middle-aged man was discovered hanging from a tree close to St. Thomas Catholic Faculty, Oja-Agbe, alongside the Iseyin-Abeokuta highway. Residents reported that the person had expressed misery to pals over amassed money owed linked to sports activities betting.
