Admin l Thursday, November 10, 2022
LAGOS, Nigeria – A young officer of the Department of State Service, DSS, whose identity is yet to be known has taken her own life by jumping into the Lagos Lagoon.
The thirty year old lady, whose mother is also a DSS personnel was said to have called an Uber taxi to take her to the office at 3am early today only to alight on Third Mainland Bridge after a heated argument with her lover before jumping into the Lagos lagoon.
The driver, we gathered tried her best to stop her but to no avail. The lady, according to a source joined the DSS three years ago.
Reacting to the incident, the General Manager, Lagos State Emergency Management Authority, LASEMA, Dr Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu said the lady that plunged into the lagoon was in her mid thirties.
“Further investigation revealed that the lady alighted from a Uber taxi car on the bridge and plunged into the lagoon. The driver of the taxi claimed she was having a heated conversation with her fiance before alighting from the car”, the LASEMA GM said.
He added that the LRT, Men of Lagos State fire and rescue service, LASWA and officials of the Department of State Service (DSS) are currently on ground working better together to search for the victim.