Lagos police probes banker’s death

The case of the female employee of a bank in Ikorodu, Amarachi Ugochukwu, who allegedly took her own life after consuming an insecticide has been referred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, City Round has learnt.

The incident reportedly happened on Monday within the premises of the bank when the 32-year-old locked herself in the restroom and ingested the insecticide, unknown to her work colleagues.

Her body was found when other staff members searched for her when the phone she left on her table kept ringing and she was not around to take the calls.

A police source had confided to one of our correspondents that Ugochukwu was later found dead inside the toilet with the bottle of insecticide and her suicide note.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, in a text message, had confirmed the incident on Thursday.

However, Hundeyin told City Round on Friday, that the case had been referred to the homicide section at the SCID.

“The case is now at the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation Department in Yaba,” he said in a text message he sent to our correspondent.

Meanwhile, some friends of the deceased continue to express their shock over the incident on social media.

An X (formerly Twitter) user, named Becky wrote, “Finding out that the banker who committed suicide was one of my roommates back in Hall 2, University of Benin, just made the whole thing sadder and closer to home. Amarachi was so calm and loved going to church a lot back then.”

Similarly, a Facebook user, Folusho Adebisi, in a post on Thursday, described the late female banker as a friendly, amiable, and hardworking lady who had combined multiple jobs to survive.

He wrote, “Tiwalade, my son, woke me up this morning to the terrible news trending online about a young lady, Amarachi Ugochukwu, a banker committing suicide.

“Amarachi was a friend of Tiwalade and a customer of his business, Donetsk Footwear Limited. I had met Amarachi on a few occasions when she came for deliveries at Donetsk Footwear during the festivities.

 “Amarachi was a young lady, friendly, amiable, and hardworking, a lady cobbler that combined her stressful job of a banker with another stressful business of shoemaking and marketing. I read she left a suicide note complaining of a hard life, hard economy, etc.”