Details emerge as Lagos Emergency Agency gives update on lady who jumped into Lagoon

Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), says that the search and rescue team is still on the water trying to locate the body of Adetutu Adedokun, the lady who jumped into the Lagos Lagoon Thursday, November 10.

Channels TV reported that Oke-Osanyintolu gave the update on Friday, November 11. The lady who jumped into the Lagos Lagoon on Thursday, November 10, has been identified as Adetutu Adedokun, a DSS staff.

Sources in the office cited by Channels TV revealed that she is an unarmed combat instructor who stepped into the working shoes of her parents, who worked with the plain cloth service.

Just a few months ago, Adedokun, who was in her late 30s, received a letter of commendation from the Director General of DSS as the best-unarmed combat operative in her set. The victim’s fiance was also reported to have proposed to her a few weeks ago.

Adetutu Adedokun: How young lady jumped into Lagos lagoon

Adetutu had allegedly alighted from a Uber taxi car on the bridge and plunged into the lagoon Thursday afternoon. The taxi driver claimed she was having a heated conversation with her fiance before alighting from the car.

Shortly after the incident, the LRT, Men of Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA), and officials of the DSS swung into action in search of the victim.