Michael Asiwaju founder of Asiwaju Royal Furniture in Ojo, Lagos popularly known as Mike Cash, has commited suicide following several rape allegations against him on social media.
Asiwaju was said to have taken a poisonous substance suspected to be Sniper and was met lifeless in his hotel room around 12am on January 13, 2019. Shortly before he committed suicide, he had expressed his intention via his Twitter handle, Asiwaju_limited, to end his life.
The Police Public Relations Officer in Lagos, CSP Chike Oti, confirmed the suicide saying two bottles of Sniper was recovered from the incident scene.
He said, “We are investigating a possible case of suicide. We were alerted that a young man died in his hotel room and the Commissioner of Police was informed.He directed that the body should be evacuated and that a team of detectives comprising men from the forensic unit and men from the homicide section should investigate the matter.“The body was inspected and there was no visible mark of violence on the corpse. Two bottles of Sniper, which we reasonably believed he must have drunk, was recovered from the hotel room.One of the bottles had been emptied while the other one was still unopened. The man checked into the hotel with the name, Prince Moses. Preliminary investigation revealed that the man was the owner of a business known as Asiwaju Royal Furniture.”
According to reports, his corpse was found in the hotel room at Festac around 12am last Sunday.
A source said, “he checked into the hotel with another name entirely. He wrote his name as Prince Moses. For now, no one knew why he used another name. It was later discovered that his face was the same as that of a young businessman prominent on Twitter. The suicide might not be unconnected with rape allegations against him in the social media.”
Nigerians on twitter are currently divided in their reactions to the news of businessman, Asiwaju Michael, who committed suicide hours after he was accused of raping a number of Nigerian women.
Asiwaju was on January 12th, accused of forcefuly having sex with some women. An allegation he denied and afterwards threatened to commit suicide. Some Nigerians asked him to go ahead while others asked him to drop all his worldly possessions such as his iPhone with them before he killed himself.
True to his threat, he killed himself on January 13th by consuming the popular insecticide, Sniper.
Asiwaju is currently the number 1 topic on twitter and this is how people are reacting to his demise. While some are attacking his accusers for coming on twitter to accuse him instead of heading to the courts, others are mourning him. See their tweets below..