PUNCH Metro learnt that the corporal, Elias Agi, with force number 386982, who was suspected to have died of drug overdose, was found dead around 7.30am in his blue Volkswagen Passat car.
It was gathered that Agi, who was attached to the Safer Highway Patrol, Lagos State Police Command, had been one of the officers undergoing the corporal-to-sergeant promotion course at the school.
The deceased was said to have sat for the examination and passed. However, the policeman was said to have missed the interview with the Police Assessment Committee because Badagry, where he lived, is far away from Ikeja where the interview should have taken place.
It was learnt that Agi, having failed to meet the full requirement for promotion, became sad when he discovered that the exercise had ended for the year.
He was said to have returned to his car, reclined on the driver’s seat and ingested the drug.
When we got to the police school at about 10am, it was learnt that Agi’s corpse had been deposited at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital’s morgue for an autopsy.
Our correspondent was told that the shock of missing the assessment for his promotion might have forced the corporal to use drugs when he returned to his car, leading to his death.
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