The manager of Paulson Hotel, in Ikosi Ketu, Lagos, scene of the Boxing Day killing of twin brothers and their friend by a drunk policeman, who also killed himself, is on the run.
This is contrary to earlier reports that staff of the now deserted and vandalised hotel had been arrested.
The Deputy Commissioner of Police, State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) Panti, Yaba, Mr Abiodun Odude, denieid the arrest today.
“We have yet to arrest anybody from the hotel. The manager is on the run. We have not been able to effect arrest of any management staff. The Homicide Unit is investigating the case. We are looking for the manager and other management staff that run the hotel,’’ Odude said.
A drunken policeman, identified as Sgt. Stephen James, on Saturday shot dead three male customers at Paulson Hotel, over their refusal to buy him drinks. He killed himself thereafter.
The said killer cop worked with Mopol 22, GRA Ikeja before killing the twins, their friend and himself at about 4.20 p.m. on Saturday. The deceased twin brothers were identified as Taiwo and Kehinde Oyesunle and their friend simply identified as Jeje.
One of the twins, Kehinde and their friend Jeje were buried in Ikorodu on Sunday and Monday respectively, while Taiwo, who was a Navy personnel was taken away by the Navy authorities for burial.
Policemen led by the Divisional Police Officer at Ketu Police Station arrived at the scene on fateful day and removed the corpses. Relations of the dead victims called on the police authorities to do the right thing for the family as they could not demand for compensation.
A son in-law of the family, Mr Segun Sodunke, who is the husband to the immediate older sister of the twins, Olufunke, made the call.
He said that “no amount of money could compensate for the lives of Kehinde and Taiwo Oyesunle’’, describing their deaths as a calamity too many.
Sodunke urged the police authorities to check officers in uniform with guns who were always drunk.
He noted that in spite of the cries by Nigerians against careless killings by the police, nothing seems to be happening to culprits.
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