A 59-year-old woman has reportedly slumped and died in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital.
The deceased, identified as Victoria, on Wednesday died after coming down from a private car to urinate along the Ekiti State University Road in Ado Ekiti.
The driver of the vehicle, Mr Orimaye Oluwafemi, who is a lecturer in the Faculty of Agricultural Science, Ekiti State University [EKSU], said the incident happened on their way to school.
Oluwafemi said they were headed to the school to fetch some waterleaf in his farm and withdraw some money through ATM. He explained that the woman, who had just completed her PhD programme and was staying at his residence, and another student opted to follow him.
According to him, it was when he decided to stop by the road to take a photograph of a particular tree he could use for a thesis he was writing that the woman decided to use the opportunity to urinate in a nearby bush.
He said that it was when she did not return about five minutes after he and the student went to check on the woman only to discover that she had slumped and died.
The lecturer said the woman had recently complained about abdominal pain the following day she completed three days fasting.
Oluwafemi, who said that he did not know the woman’s relations, said that she was a teacher at a secondary school in Akure in Ondo State and had been staying with his family in Ado Ekiti before COVID-19 case was confirmed in Ekiti.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Ekiti State Command, Sunday Abutu, who confirmed the incident, said, “We were called, we went there to recover the corpse which we deposited at the morgue of Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti for autopsy. Now, efforts are on to contact the family members”.
