A WONDER,AS MAN CLIMBS AND STAYS ON HIGH-TENSION TOWER FOR THREE HOURS AND STIL LIVE

I don't know if this guy used jazz or he was lucky because NEPA and PHCN and DISCOs and GENCOs have not been giving electricity in that part of Lagos.

Tragedy was averted on Friday when an unidentified man mounted an electricity transmission tower.

The incident occurred at Powerline Street, Calvary Bus Stop in Egbe-Idimu Local Council Area. The man was said to have wandered around the vicinity in the early hours of the day before stopping at the foot of the tower at about 2pm and started action.

Eyewitnesses told PUNCH that he removed some totems tied to the tower by a vigilance group and mounted it to the top despite warnings from residents and passers-by.

A resident, Mr. Kazeem Oyebola, who said the man did not look like a mentally challenged person, added that his responses showed he was on a suicide mission.

He stated, “He was not mad at all. He was coherent when he talked except for some vague statements he made. He had a mission and it was to kill himself for some unknown reasons.”

Also, a yam seller in the area who identified herself as Iya Bose said she was scared when the man in his late thirties climbed the tower.

Another resident, identified as Odunayo, who sells alcoholic drinks in the area, said the man covered himself with a wrapper. She added that many felt the tower climber wanted cheap publicity or had an intention to “carry out a diabolical assignment particularly as he wore red knickers.”

A community leader in the area, Mr. Alao Salami, said when he sensed that the man was not ready to disembark from the tower after about three hours he had to alert the police at the Idimu Police Station.

An official with an electricity firm who did not want his name in print told PUNCH that the only way the man could have survived electrocution was because there was no electricity in the wires.