- Safiu Kehinde
A yet-to-be identified man has on Monday embarked on an apparent suicide mission as he climbed a giant billboard in Kano state.
As captured in a now viral video shared on Instagram, the middle-aged man climbed the billboard located at Gadar Lado area in Zaria road in a suspected attempt to commit suicide on Monday.
The incident attracted several onlookers, leading to traffic gridlock along the road.
According to eyewitness, the man remained perched on the billboard for over an hour.
Confirming the incident in a post on his Facebook handle, the Kano State Police Command Spokesperson, Abdullahi Kiyawa, revealing that the man refused to come down and insisted on seeing some TikTok personalities in person.
“Right now the security forces are trying to rescue him. He said if celebrities who follow on Tiktok don’t go there, he will fall. May God protect us,” Kiyawa wrote.
The Police Spokesperson would.later confirm the rescue of the man in a separate post.
“At last the young man was rescued and taken to police hospital in Bompai.” He posted.
See video below