Body recovered not my son – Mother of doctor who jumped into Lagos lagoon

The spokesperson of the Lagos State Police

Command, Dolapo Badmos, on Tuesday quoted

the mother of the medical doctor, Allwell Orji,

who jumped off the 3rd mainland bridge as

saying the body earlier recovered was not her

son’s.

Orji had on Sunday committed suicide on the

Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos.

The doctor was said to have asked his driver to

park after receiving a call and jumped into the

lagoon.

Against this backdrop, Orji’s mother had

expressed optimism that her son would return

home alive.

She had said, “I am hopeful that my son will be

rescued by the emergency officials and not the

recovery of his body.”

Report had it earlier today that the body of the

medical doctor has been found.

But speaking shortly after a body was recovered,

Badmos said, “The mother has come to identify

the body recovered, but she said the deceased

was not her son.”