A 59-year-old widower, Adewale Majekolagbe, has been found dead on Majekolagbe Street, Ibafo, Ogun State from an apparent suicide.
The street is named after Majekolagbe, whose remains were found dangling from a rope in his house on Wednesday.
PUNCH Metro reports that the deceased had disappeared from the community on Tuesday and had also stopped taking his telephone calls.
Concerned residents and members of the community development association were said to have forced the door to his house open and found his body dangling from the rope.
The deceased according to a resident, left a suicide note which reads: “‘(Son’s name withheld), you are the one that put me into this problem, which made me to take my life. 3.35pm.’
“He hanged himself in his late wife’s room. He left a suicide note. He indicated the time he killed himself. The note has been handed over to the police. What is curious is that some of us still don’t know what the son did to him that made him kill himself. He did not say what his son did.”
A woman on the street described the deceased as kind-hearted, adding that his late wife was also hospitable.
The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident, adding that the police had a copy of the suicide note.
