{"id":6712,"date":"2022-04-05T13:53:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T13:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=6712"},"modified":"2022-04-05T13:53:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T13:53:47","slug":"suicide-on-birthday-rrs-stops-67-year-old-man-from-jumping-into-lagos-lagoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=6712","title":{"rendered":"Suicide On Birthday: RRS Stops 67-Year-old Man From Jumping Into Lagos Lagoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\">Officials of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) on patrol of 3rd Mainland Bridge this afternoon stopped a 67 \u2013 year old man from leaping into the Lagoon on his birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The elderly man, who gave his name as Oluwatoye Bamgboye, from Oju \u2013 Ore, Ogun State, was attempting to jump into the Lagos Lagoon inward Lagos Island when the officers stopped him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He disclosed that a personal challenge made him sell his house, land and car. With that, he still couldn\u2019t solve the problem. He got a loan and the problem still persisted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He explained further that, he secured a job and on the resumption date, he was informed that the job had been given to someone else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cToday being my birthday, I have decided to end it all. The burden and the frustration is too much for me to bear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">My wife has abandoned me in the process\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He has been conveyed to Adekunle Police Station, where efforts are in progress to contact his family members.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) on patrol of 3rd Mainland Bridge this afternoon stopped a 67 \u2013 year old man from leaping into the Lagoon on his birthday. The elderly man, who gave his name as Oluwatoye Bamgboye, from Oju \u2013 Ore, Ogun State, was attempting to jump into the Lagos Lagoon inward Lagos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[647,3987,419,1311],"class_list":["post-6712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-birthday","tag-lagos-lagoon","tag-rrs","tag-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6714,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712\/revisions\/6714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}