Osun State Police Command, yesterday, said it had commenced a probe into circumstances surrounding the alleged suicide by a teenage undergraduate, Victor Tomiwa Olonade, in Ilesa.
The 19-year-old boy was found hanging from a noose in his parents’ compound, a few minutes after he returned from his school, Ipetu Ijesa College of Technology, Osun State on Saturday.
The deceased, a student of the Computer Engineering Department of the institution, had left his school to visit his parents in Isokun area of Ilesa at the weekend and had requested to have a discussion with his mother.
He was found by neighbours and residents, hanging from a rope within his parent’s rented apartment.
Confirming the incident in a statement, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, Yemisi Opalola, explained that the deceased was found hanging in his father’s compound on Saturday.
The Command also claimed that when its officers visited the scene of the suicide to recover the corpse, there were no signs of violence on the body.
“At about 2:30 p.m., on Saturday, one Agboola Olusola of 049 Isokun Street, Ilesa, reported at Ilesa ‘A’ Division that Olonade Tomiwa Victor, 19, a student of Ipetu Ijesa College of Technology, Osun State, was found dead by hanging in a compound with telephone cable.”