Suicide Doctor: The Body You Recovered is Not My Son - Doctor's Mother Tells Police

Doctor Allwell Orji's car after he jumped into the lagoon 

The mother of Dr. Allwell Orji, who jumped into the Lagos Lagoon on the Third Mainland Bridge has told marine police officers that the body they found is not that of her son. She revealed this after police had alleged that it had recovered the body.


The spokesperson for the Zone 2 Police Command, SP Dolapo Badmos said, “The mother has come to identify the body recovered, but she said the deceased was not her son.”

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni had earlier claimed that Dr. Orji’s body was found by the Marine Police, at the Onikan end of the Lagoon. Dr. Orji allegedly committed suicide by jumping off the popular and busy Lagos Third Mainland Bridge.

Reports from the Police authorities said the deceased was said to be a medical doctor, and asked his driver to stop before jumping across the bridge, into the water.

Until his death, Dr. Orji worked at the Mount Sinai Hospital in Surulere area of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria.

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