An Assistant Superintendent of Nigerian Customs has allegedly committed suicide in the Lungu Village area of Gwarinpa, Abuja
The cause of the suicide was yet to be ascertained. Sources said the
man, identified as Christian, 44, locked himself in a room and hung
himself with a rope on Saturday.
A source said the deceased, who was unmarried, was staying with his
brother and was said to have been recently transferred to Lagos before
the incident happened.
The Gwarinpa Divisional Police Officer, CSP Nuruddeen Sabo, said the
brother whom the deceased stayed with was at a barber’s shop when the
incident happened.
He said the man was confirmed dead at the Kubwa General Hospital.
“Exhibits recovered include some drugs and knife.”
Preliminary investigation, he said, had revealed that the deceased was suffering from depression.