Tope Akinde, an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, took his own life by hanging on the side of a billboard covered by a mango tree on Saturday morning.
The incident happened around Salvation bus stop, #Opebi, #Ikeja. According to reports, he was recently redeployed from his #Alausa base, but was not happy about the redeployment. .
However, his elder brother claimed that he had been suffering from mental instability for a while and the family had been managing it before his death.
His corpse has since been retrieved and deposited at IDH Hospital, #Yaba mortuary by the Lagos State Ambulance Service. [Swipe]