According to reports, a man who has not yet been recognized slumps and died in the late hours of Tuesday in the Abeokuta South Local government of Ogun State.
According to information acquired by Gistlover on Wednesday, the man, who appeared to be in his late fifties, was strolling by the road when he suddenly slumped and passed away.
A community member, speaking to our correspondent under pseudonym out of concern for police questioning, said the seemingly healthy man simply slumped without hitting anything and passed away right away.
“The man was walking along the roadside when we noticed that he just slumped and died. He does not look like someone who is sick and he did not collide with anything that we may say is the cause of his death.”
An additional source from the school at the scene of the man’s death, identifying only as Vice-Principal Academics, stated that despite efforts by the school administration and local leaders, government authorities had been unable to retrieve the man’s remains.
He said, “We discovered the corpse yesterday when we saw people gathered around him. We learnt that the man was walking by the roadside before he slumped and died immediately. The school management reached out to the community CDA and the police in Adatan.
“The Principal of our school in the company of the police took the corpse to Sacred Heart Hospital in Lantoro and State Hospital, Ijaiye to deposit the corpse at their morgue but they rejected it saying there was no space to accommodate it. As we speak the corpse has been returned back to the spot that he died.”
When contacted, Omolola Odutola, the public relations officer for the state police, verified the occurrence and mentioned that no family members have been located, therefore the man’s identity is still unknown. She claimed that in order to bury him, health officials had been informed.
“The Police don’t have information about him because he has no known family members. Health officials have been notified and they will bury him,” Odutola disclosed.
