A man and a woman were found dead inside a Sienna vehicle along the Mowe/Ibafo axis of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Wednesday.
It was gathered that residents said the car was seen on Tuesday, locked up with the two occupants inside.
According to an eyewitness, the vehicle marked LSD 992 HH, had a helmet on the dashboard, suggesting that the owner might be into construction.
It was gathered that the vehicle spent about three days on the same spot before people discovered that the occupants were dead.
But there was controversy over the cause of death of the duo inside the vehicle.
A resident of the area, who simply identified as Jane, said, “The car had been there since 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 said that the two might have been engaging in sex when the incident happened.
“It was discovered that a man and a woman were having sex in the car but they died opposite Nasfat praying ground,” the source said.
The Spokesman of the Ogun State Police Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident on Wednesday, describing it as a case of murder and suicide.
Oyeyemi asserted that the two did not die while making love inside the car, saying it was a case of murder and suicide.
“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. So, it is a case of murder and suicide,” Oyeyemi explained.
The PPRO added that the corpses had been deposited in the mortuary.
