Five police officers attached to Nigerian recording artiste, Damini Ogulu better known as Burna Boy have been arrested by the Lagos State Police Commissioner’s Special Squad for attempted murder after they shot two clubgoers, Irebami Lawrence and another identified simply as Tolu, at Club Cubana in Lagos on Wednesday, June 8.
The development comes just a few years after the Lagos State police command declared Burna Boy wanted for allegedly sending armed thugs to assault and rob fellow musician, Abiye Jumbo, popularly known as Mr. 2Kay.
According to a preliminary police report by the Bar Beach Police Division in Lagos State, trouble started around 4am on June 8, 2022 when the musician and five police escorts visited Club Cubana in Victoria Island.
About four policemen waited outside while one of the policemen identified as Inspector Ibrahim, who was in mufti, accompanied the Grammy- winning artiste into the club.
According to multiple witness statements, Burna Boy was in the VIP section with three women when he spotted another woman.
He was reported to have told Ibrahim to invite the woman to come join him.
However, the lady’s husband was said to have lambasted Burna Boy, insisting that it was disrespectful for any man to make advances at his wife.
After some minutes, Burna Boy was reported to have made fresh advances towards the woman.
This infuriated her husband further and his friends who had gathered at the club and the matter soon degenerated.
“As things were getting heated, Ibrahim brought out his service pistol and shot multiple times while Burna Boy was laughing,” said a senior policeman.
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In the process, 27 year-old Lawrence was shot in the thigh while his friend, Tolu, was hit in the head by a bullet.
The Spokesman for the Lagos State Police command, Benjamin Hundeyin, said the focus of the investigation were the policemen.
Hundeyin also claimed that the police had not received any complaint from any victim.
He said,
It was the policemen attached to him that shot and it is an internal disciplinary matter.
They will explain why they had to shoot into the air and the outcome of their explanation during the investigation will determine what steps to take next.
So, it is an internal thing with the police officers that were with him.
Hundeyin added that Burna Boy is not a primary suspect because she was ‘not accused of shooting anyone’.
He continued;
“Except you have news that Burna Boy was the one shooting; then we will have to investigate how he got the gun and all that. But what we have for now is that the policemen were the ones that shot.
We are treating the policemen internally for disciplinary matters.
We didn’t get a report of somebody being hit by a bullet.
If somebody was hit by a bullet, anybody treating the person is supposed to have reported but we didn’t get any report of such.
The investigation is ongoing.”
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