The woman who jumped into the Lagos Lagoon on Thursday has been connected as Adetutu Adedokun, a member of staff of the country’s secret police known as the Department of State Services( DSS).
A source verified in a report published by Channels Television on Friday that Adedokun was said to be an unarmed combat educator, who had lately got engaged.
Meanwhile the Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Dr Olufemi Oke- Osanyintolu, revealed in a statement on Thursday the motorist of the hack claimed she was having an argument with her fiancé before alighting from the auto and jumping into the lagoon.
Oke- Osanyintolu, in a fresh evidence on Friday, claimed that the hunt and deliverance platoon was still on the water trying to detect the body.
Adedokun, who's in her late 30s, was also said to have entered a letter of commendation front the Director General of DSS as the best- unarmed combat operative in her set, many months agone
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The victim’s fiancé was also reported to have proposed to her a many weeks agone
. She had alighted from an Uber hack auto on the ground and plunged into the lagoon Thursday autumn.
The motorist of the hack claimed she was having a heated discussion with her fiancée before alighting from the auto.
Vanguard reported that Oke- Osayintolu had on Thursday said, “ Upon the appearance of the Lagos Response Team at the incident scene, disquisition revealed that a lady in her late 30s plunged into the Lagos lagoon.
“ farther disquisition revealed that the lady alighted from an Uber hack auto on the ground and plunged into the lagoon.
The motorist of the hack claimed she was having a heated discussion with her fiancé before alighting from the auto.
“ The LRT, men of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Services, LASWA and officers of the Department of State Services are presently on ground working together to search for the victim. ”
The state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotosho, said deliverance brigades after violent hunt and deliverance sweats were unfit to find the victim.
He said, “ The deliverance brigades called off their hunt by 7 pm because it was formerly dark. They will continue the hunt hereafter( Friday); you know it's water, the surge would have taken the body nearly differently. But we will search far and wide. ”