According to reports, a yet-to-be-identified tricycle rider has taken his own life after efforts to reportedly retrieve his seized tricycle from some government transport officials failed in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State.
It was gathered that the tricyclist was heading to a destination in the state when the officials intercepted him for an offence.
Due to the interception, the officers reportedly seized the tricycle and took it to their office located near the Jubilee Estate, along the Ikorodu-Sagamu Expressway.
Efforts by the tricycle operator to retrieve his tricycle from the officials were said to have been futile.
In what appears to be a show of despair and an apparent effort to protest the seizure of his tricycle, the tricycle rider went to a tree at the front of the fence of the compound where the offices of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, and Vehicle Inspection Officers are situated, close to the Jubilee Estate, along the Ikorodu-Sagamu Expressway, and hanged himself.
In a viral video, the man’s corpse was seen hanging on a tree with a rope tied around his neck.
Meanwhile, a suicide note alleged that the tricyclist committed the act because efforts to retrieve his seized tricycle proved abortive.
Reacting to the incident, the spokesperson for LASTMA, Taofiq Adebayo, when contacted, said the agency did not know anything about the case, adding that no tricycle was seized by any of the officers working under the agency in the area.
“We don’t know anything about the incident. And within our premises, we don’t have any tricycle impounded by any of our officers in that area. So, LASTMA is not involved in anything of such, and we don’t know anything about the hanging of the dead body,” Adebayo said.
