Another suicide has been recorded in Lagos State.
The state police command on Sunday gave the name of the man involved as Seyi Onayemi, 37, of 7th Avenue, Rofo Estate, Odogunyan, Shagamu road, Ikorodu had committed suicide.
The state poice PRP, Bala Elkana, said that Onayemi allegedly drank a poisonous substance suspected to be Snipper insecticide and died in his room.
“The scene was visited by homicide detectives and the corpse has been evacuated to the mortuary for autopsy.
“The empty bottle of the poisonous substance and a suicide note has been recovered from the scene,” Elkana said.
Onayemi’s case is one of the several that worrying the polity.
Many youths are particularly prone to suicide nowadays, with some of the incidents happening at higher institutions.
More than half of the victims took sniper.the Federal Government banned the manufacturing and indiscriminate sale of ‘Sniper’, an agro-chemical that has increasingly become a choice killer for persons contemplating suicide.
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control said the ban became necessary because of the recent wave of suicide cases across the country has been linked to the intake of Sniper.
Reports said many Nigerians have been calling on the government to check the proliferation of, and ease to access to, sniper because of its wrong use.
Sniper can be picked up easily on the streets as they are sold openly in the market.
“We have also placed a ban on the manufacture of smaller packs of Sniper which are easily purchased for household use,” Husman Bukar, the Director, Veterinary Medicine and Allied Products Directorate, NAFDAC was quoted as saying in the report.
“Recently, some suicide cases have been associated with people drinking Sniper. Henceforth, we call on the agro-chemical industry to enhance their distribution channels so that this product (Sniper) gets to only accredited distributors and marketers.”
