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T4T woke up to the news last week, that a certain Lagos-based socialite and businesswoman, Farida Sobowale was rescued on the Third Mainland Bridge while attempting suicide, following her crashed marriage.
To be honest, it was the first time T4T was getting to hear about this socialite. So, out of curiosity, he decided to read the news item. The story and accompanying video revealed that passerby prevented her from jumping into the lagoon after she packed her state-of-the-art SUV and made for the bridge’s rails. Sobowale was seen in the video feebly fighting back as her “saviours” held her.
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After a forensic analysis of the “crime scene,” T4T concluded that Madam Sobowale never wanted to commit suicide. All she wanted was to seek attention and let the public know that after spending N100 million on her marriage just three months ago (as she later claimed), the smart-alec decided he had had enough of her.
Forensic report by T4T: Third Mainland Bridge does not have leg traffic unless you are alighting from a vehicle at the Oworosoki side, where you will find residents and shops, as well as, hawkers standing by in case vehicular traffic builds up (and there is always traffic). Now, for someone who wanted to jump into the river in a suicide bid, it will take her less than a minute from when she came down from her vehicle to jump inside the river before anybody would even notice. But for all these people in the video to suddenly appear (and someone with a camera phone too), and restrain her….that is to say cars driving by had to stop when they noticed she was up to no good. And that would have taken over five minutes, a time too much for her to have jumped inside the waters. But madam obviously caused a stir and that alerted people to her intentions.
Conclusion: Dis woman nor wan kill herself.
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