The Nigeria Police Force has released a statement on the cause of death of the couple found in a Toyota Sienna on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
Residents in the neighbourhood said that noticed the car on Tuesday with the unidentified man and woman locked inside the car near the NASFAT prayer ground.
Eyewitnesses at the scene on Tuesday reported that they both died while having sex in the vehicle.
A resident in the area identified as Jane told Daily Post that: “The car has been standing here since yesterday (Monday). But this morning, people moved closer and discovered that there were two lifeless bodies inside it. We don’t know what killed them.”
Another source, Seun Damilola claimed that the couple actually didn’t die while having sex inside the car.
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He said: “The man beat his girlfriend to death at their house around Akoka, drove her down to Mowe, dropped a suicide letter to his family and fed himself a poison.”
Abimbola Oyeyemi, Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer who confirmed the incident on Wednesday said it was a murder-suicide case.
Oyeyemi stated that, “The two did not die while having sex. What happened was that the girl in question happened to be a girlfriend to that man. He rented an apartment for her somewhere in Lagos. He went there to visit her. We don’t know what transpired between them, but we learnt he hit the woman on the head and she slumped.
“He carried the lifeless body of the woman in his vehicle. People in that neighbourhood ran to Ilaje police station in Bariga to report. But he drove off, straight to his house at Orimerunmu. He dropped a suicide note, informing his wife that he had killed somebody. He told his wife not to bother looking for him, asking her to take care of the children. Then he left the house.
“He drove and parked near NASFAT area and he committed suicide there. We saw a container of Sniper in the vehicle, which suggested that he drank Sniper (an insecticide). He wound up the glasses and died in the vehicle.
NASFAT also known as Nasrul-lahi-li Fathi Society of Nigeria is a Nigerian Muslim prayer group with focus on youth, women and the elites.
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