A security sentinel, Azeez Ibrahim, has shot dead a female undergraduate of Babcock University, Busayo Ogunkoya, during a day of inchoation party in a hotel in Ikorodu, Lagos State.
PUNCH Metro learnt that 22-year-old Ogunkoya was celebrating with her friends on Saturday evening, July 5, 2014, at Mambillah Hotel, when the sentinel fired a shot that killed her.
Our correspondent learnt that immediately the incident transpired, there was mystification as the people fled the hotel.
A source verbally expressed Ibrahim was drunk.
He verbally expressed, “The incident transpired on Saturday night when Busayo and her friends were having a party.
“She did not ken the person celebrating, but she was invited to the party by her boyfriend.
“The party was going on fine until the security man, who was holding a gun which he claimed he had seized from some purloiners, mishandled the gun and fired a bullet which hit Busayo. The sentinel was verbalized to be drunk.”
Our correspondent amassed that the bullet lodged in the neck region of the victim.
She was verbally expressed to have been rushed to a private hospital in the area where she was attested dead.
Policemen from the Owutu Police Division were verbalized to have arrived at the scene and apprehended the sentinel, the assistant manager of the hotel and the victim’s boyfriend.
When our correspondent visited the area, there was tension as residents were trepidacious to verbalize about the incident.
Mambillah, which is one of the popular hotels in the Ikorodu area of Lagos, withal bore a gloomy look.
A resident confided in PUNCH Metro that since the tragedy, the hotel had been shut to guests and no music had been played during the daytime as was the practice.
A sizably voluminous number of security officials was additionally verbalized to have been deployed in the hotel to avert attack from aggrieved youths.
A puerile boy, who did not identify himself for security reason, verbally expressed the incident left a bloody trail.
He verbalized, “On Sunday morning when I wanted to do something in the hotel, I descried blood on the ground. I cannot verbally express precisely how the incident transpired, but I learnt a lady was killed the antecedent night.”
PUNCH Metro learnt that the sentinel, who fired the killer shot, owned a house in Ikorodu.
Our correspondent verbalized with one of his tenants, who pleaded anonymity for security reasons.
She described Ibrahim as a caring landlord who was only a victim of some “forces.”
She verbalized, “He is such a nice and caring landlord. I have been living in his house for a long time and he has never made any trouble with me.
“I ken he is just a victim of some forces beyond his control. He could not have deliberately killed the girl and I hope the police ascendant entities would have mercy on him.”
When our correspondent met the manager of the hotel for comment, he verbalized he had nothing to verbalize.
After verifying the identity of our correspondent, he verbally expressed, “I have nothing to verbalize to The PUNCH newspaper. Where were you when the incident transpired? Where were you when I was endeavoring to settle with the girl’s family? Please I have nothing to verbally express.”
The Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, Lelma Kolle, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, however, substantiated the incident.
He verbalized the case had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, for investigation.
Kolle verbalized, “Yes the incident transpired. The girl was in the hotel and the security man opened fire on her. Nobody kens his reason for doing that. The police have apprehended the assistant manager of the hotel, the deceased’s boyfriend and the security man. The case has been transferred to the SCID.”
