A truck owner , identified as Fatai Salami , has committed suicide after his truck was seized by officials of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps for flouting COVID - 19 laws in the state .
Salami reportedly drank an insecticide , snippers, on the premises of the TRACE after he was asked to pay N 215, 000 for flouting COVID - 19 law in the state .
A source told our correspondent that TRACE officials seized the deceased ’ s truck from his driver in Abeokuta on Thursday for flouting social distancing order and failure to use face mask .
He was said to have gone to the premises of TRACE and pleaded for the release of his truck , but failed to get his truck back .
According to the source , he had been sleeping on the premises since Thursday until Monday when he was able to raise a sum of N 150, 000 , which was rejected .
The source said the man threatened to kill himself , but was not taken seriously until he drank the snippers and died .
The Public Relations Officer of TRACE , Babatunde Akinbiyi , confirmed the death of the man .
He said , “ The man was neither a truck driver not a truck owner . We only saw him there , he sat on the floor and the people asked him to stand up and as he stood up he brought out something from his pocket and drank it .
“ We later discovered that it was snipper that he drank . He was rushed to the General Hospital, where he gave up the ghost . The case has been reported to the police. ”
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