Africa: The Police Inspector-General, Usman Baba, has criticized the shooting involving the police guards attached to a musician, Damini Ogulu, aka Burna Boy, at club Cubana on Victorian Island, Lagos State.
This was confirmed via a series of tweets which is made by the Force Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, on Sunday.
The tweet, titled “Re: Club shooting in Lagos”, read, “The police personnel alleged and identified in the shooting incident at Club Cubana in Victoria Island, Lagos, on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, have been taken into custody and are being studied for their involvement in the incident.
According to the Inspector-General Police, Usman Baba’s description of the circumstances surrounding the incident as unbelievable has condemned the unfortunate incident in the strongest terms.
“Therefore, the IGP has directed the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Abiodun Alabi, to conduct a thorough investigation into the matter and forward his report as urgently as possible for further action.”
As per sources, the Lagos State Police Commissioner’s Special Squad detained five police officers who were involved in the incident and for attempted murder after they shot two fun-seekers— Irebami Lawrence and another identified simply as Tolu, at Club Cubana on Wednesday.
As per the sources, the whole trouble started when the singer and five police escorts visited the nightclub around 4 am on June 8.
However, one police officer was inside, and the rest of the four were waiting outside; the inside policeman, identified as Inspector Ibrahim, who was in mufti, accompanied the Grammy-Award-winning artiste into the club.
As per the statements of fun-seekers, the singer was in the VIP section with three women when he spotted another woman.
And as per reports, he told Ibrahim to invite the woman to join him. However, the lady’s husband objected and said to have criticized the singer, insisting that it was disrespectful for any man to make advances on his wife.
After some minutes, Burna Boy reportedly made fresh advances at the woman. This outraged her husband and his friends who had assembled at the club.
They both have come into an argument; Ibrahim brought out his service pistol and shot multiple times while Burna Boy was laughing, said a senior policeman.
In the procedure, 27-year-old Lawrence was shot in the thigh while his friend, Tolu, was hit in the head by a bullet. This provoked a commotion in the club.
It was learnt that Burna Boy and his crew then drove off to one of his properties at the Elegushi end of the Lekki-Epe Expressway before leaving for Lekki Phase 1.