Police Arrest Elegushi Beach Manager Over Drowned UNILAG Students' Incident

The Lagos State Police Command says it has arrested
two managers of the Elegushi Beach in Ajah where
two postgraduate students of the University of Lagos
drowned on Sunday during their friend’s birthday.
The command, however, declined to disclose the
names of the suspects, adding that it was on the trail
of some other members of the management to
investigate their complicity in the incident.
Punch Metro had reported that the deceased –
Adesola Ogunmefun and 25-year-old Funmi Odusina
– were having fun with their friend, Bolu, on the
beach when they were submerged by strong tides,
which swept them into the Atlantic Ocean.
They had graduated from the Covenant University
and were on the verge of bagging their Master’s
Degrees in International Law and Diplomacy from
UNILAG.
While Ogunmefun was brought out dead, Bolu and
Odusina were said to have been rushed to some
private hospitals in the area which rejected them.
Odusina died on the way to the Lagos Island General
Hospital, while Bolu survived.
Families and friends of deceased had blamed the
deaths on the alleged failure of the beach
management to provide necessary safety devices like
life guards, a wave alarm system, an ambulance and
a medical unit at the facility and condemned the
indifference of the hospitals that rejected the victims.
Odusina’s elder sister, Bukola, had also lamented
that the incident shattered her sister’s dreams to
become a philanthropist, an ambassador and a
mechanised farmer, calling on the government to
ensure that the beach had adequate safety devices.
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP
Dolapo Badmos, on Wednesday told Punch
correspondent that the names of the arrested
managers would be disclosed as soon as their
culpability in the circumstances surrounding the
deaths was ascertained.
Badmos said the suspects were under interrogation
and the command would visit the scene of the crime
to assess its safety devices.
Meanwhile, the spokesperson for UNILAG, Mr. Toyin
Adebule, said some representatives of the institution
would pay condolence visits to the families of the
deceased on Thursday (today).
“The department will visit the families tomorrow
(Friday),” Adebule said in a text message.
Source Gist Mania