A 26-year-old lady, Morufa Alagbala, who went missing for some days, has been found dead inside a well in the Omitoro, Ijede area of Ikorodu, Lagos State.
It will be recalled that the family had reported Morufa missing last Tuesday at the Igbogbo Police Division, when her whereabouts were not known.
DAILY POST gathered that her body was discovered when some plumbers came to work on the well in her resident at Babatunde Aina Street.
The deceased’s elder sister disclosed that although Morufa has had a history of mental illness, her death was quite appalling, adding that the deceased had severally escaped from home in the past but she usually returned after some hours.
She said, “On Tuesday, when I noticed my sister wasn’t home, I checked around the neighborhood and didn’t find her. I concluded it was one of her usual way of straying from home; but she would always return. The mental imbalance made her get ferocious and act oddly sometimes.
“There was a period she became too aggressive, and struck me on the head. We had been managing her condition until that Tuesday when she went missing,” the deceased’s sister recounted.
“On Thursday,” she continued, “we had invited some plumbers to come to fix a problem with our well, and they complained that the water reeked badly. According to the plumbers, the whiff emanating from the well was rather too stench to be ordinary.
“They took a closer look and found that a dead body was on the surface, floating. That was how Morufa’s corpse was discovered.
“Whenever she had one of her unstable mental occurrences, I used to take her to a psychiatric hospital in Yaba for treatment. But the last time we went, they were on strike, although, she was given some medications.
“She could not marry or go to school because of the disorder.
“So when she was not found, we reported at the police station. Her death was unexpected and so shocking, but we believe it is the will of God,” she sobbed.
It has been gathered that men of the Lagos State Fire Service were in the house to remove the corpse from the well.
The Director of the Service, Dr Razak Fadipe, who confirmed the incident, said, “From all indications, the lady accidentally fell and got trapped inside the well. It was about 120 feet deep. She was recovered dead by firefighters from the Ikorodu Fire Station.”
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