On Friday 15th January 2016, a man shocked onlookers when he mounted an electricity transmission tower at Power-line Street, Calvary Bus Stop in Egbe-Idimu, Lagos, despite warnings from people. A resident, Mr. Kazeem Oyebola, said: “He
was not mad at all. He was coherent when he talked. He had a mission and it was to kill himself for some unknown reasons.”
The incident attracted a crowd and some of them had to climb the tower to see if they could get him down.
A yam seller in the area who identified herself as Iya Bose said she was scared when the man in his late thirties climbed the tower.
Another resident, identified as Odunayo, who sells alcoholic drinks in the area, said the man covered himself with a wrapper.
She added that many felt the tower climber wanted cheap publicity or had an intention to “carry out a diabolical assignment particularly as he wore red knickers.”
Policemen later came in to make him disembark, after spending 3 hours on the tower. An official with an electricity distribution firm said that the only way the man could have survived electrocution was because there was no electricity in the wires.
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