A resident of the Odunukan residence where the suicidal Dr. Allwell Orji lived until his death has revealed that the doctor might have reconsidered his actions had the family not changed his driver.
Recall that the medical doctor had committed suicide on Sunday afternoon by jumping into the Lagos lagoon.
Speaking on his death, a resident of the deceased’s house identified as Oluwole noted that he had before his last successful attempted tried to commit suicide about four times in the past
Oluwole who spoke to The Nation said: “We were here four years ago when he wanted to jump from the top of the storey building owned by his family. His family members do not relate with other people in the neigbourhood, and it was the same thing with the late doctor.
“I often saw him walking on the streets bespectacled on days he was not on call at the hospital. He walked like someone who was thinking too much.”
Oluwole further added that things might have turned out differently for the deceased doctor had his family kept his former driver.
“It won’t be out of place to describe him as a recluse. He was not on the social media, neither did he engage in any social activity.
“I believe things would have turned out differently if the family did not change his former driver. The former driver would have suspected and could have tried to stop him once he ordered him to stop on the bridge. I am not sure his new driver was well briefed on his medical condition.”
A colleague of the deceased who wished to remain anonymous while recalling his last days at work said: “He was cheerful on that day and attended to patients in his usual cheerful manner. There was no slightest indication that something was amiss or anything to indicate that he was depressed or bothered by something. If there was any sign, it was not obvious at all. If there was anything amiss, that would be his personal life which, of course, we couldn’t have been part of.”
A nurse at the hospital also added as she fought back tears: “Everybody here will miss him. He was a jovial person. He loved his work. He was someone we enjoyed working with. That Friday was his last day at work here.”
