Lagos: Tenant’s Decomposing Corpse Found In Apartment

A decomposing corpse of a tenant identified as Chichi Okechukwu has been spotted by her neighbours at No. 15 Fagbile Street, Surulere, Lagos State.

According to Punch, a friend of the deceased who has not seen her going to work for a while got worried and decided to pay her a visit to find out her whereabouts.

The deceased neighbours revealed that her friend’s visit that was the time a strange odour was being perceived in the house.

The neighbours had concluded that the odour was from a rat which probably died somewhere in the compound, Okechukwu’s friend, upon approaching her apartment, also perceived the odour.

However, some neighbours confirmed that the odour was oozing out of Okechukwu’s room that was locked from the inside.

The landlady, Abiodun Dogbajale, was immediately informed about the observation, she contacted the police, who broke the door to Okechukwu’s apartment and discovered her corpse lying on the floor.

An eyewitness, who identified himself simply as Khalid, said the deceased’s friend, who visited the house when she could not get her, made the neighbours realise that the odour was oozing out of her apartment.

He said, “My boss and I were working in our factory in the compound when a woman in the area said one of our neighbour’s friends was around to check on her, because she observed that she had not gone to work for a while.

“The friend also said calls to her number had not been connecting. So, they went to her room to find out if she was there and perceived the odour and later discovered that it was coming from her room and that she had died.”

A tenant, Adekunle Adejumo, stated that he was surprised when he got to his office after delivering some jobs to his clients, but met a lot of people mourning Okechukwu’s death.

He stated that upon hearing the news, he proceeded to the police station to make an official report, adding that police personnel from the Area ‘C’ Police Division visited the scene of the incident to evacuate the corpse.

The spokesperson of the command, Bala Elkana, stated that the deceased’s landlady reported the case, he added that the corpse had been deposited in the Mainland Hospital’s morgue for investigation.

Elkana stated, “On Tuesday, October 17, 2019, around 4.20pm, one Abiodun Dogbajale, who is also the landlady of the building where the deceased lived, said she received a phone call from one of her tenants that they were perceiving an offensive odour from the apartment of Chichi Okechukwu and that the odour could be that of a dead body.”

“A team of detectives attached to the division raced to the scene and forced the door open and met the decomposing body of Chichi Okechukwu on the floor of her room. The corpse has been deposited in the Mainland Hospital’s morgue for autopsy.”