According to reports, he was descending the well when he fell and died.
An unidentified woman in the residence, after discovering what had happened, went to call his relatives.
She was also said to have later alerted officials of the fire service.
The Director of the Lagos State Fire Service, Rasak Fadipe, confirmed the incident, noting that the corpse was handed over to policemen from the Alapere division who deposited it in a morgue.
Fadipe said, “Okpala wanted to install a pumping machine in the well when he got trapped. We received a distress call and the Alausa fire station responded.
“One of our fire officers, Salau, who led the rescue operation, recovered him dead.
“The corpse was handed over to the police from the Alapere division,” the Director added, while appealing to residents who wished to work on their wells, to seek the assistance of the agency.
Meanwhile, The Punch gathered that the deceased was not the one originally contracted for the job.
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