Burna Boy’s Police Escorts Detained for Allegedly Shooting Two Men at a Club After One of Them Confronted, Burna Boy For Making Advances To A Man's Wife
The Lagos State Police Commissioner's Special Squad has arrested five police officers attached to singer Damini Ogulu, aka Burna Boy, for attempted murder after they shot two men, Irebami Lawrence and Tolu, on Wednesday, June 8, at Club Cubana on Victoria Island in Lagos.
According to a preliminary report from the Bar Beach Police Division, the trouble began when the singer and five police escorts visited the nightclub around 4 a.m. on June 8. Four police officers waited outside while one of them, identified as Inspector Ibrahim, dressed in mufti, escorted the Grammy-winning artist into the club.
According to multiple witness statements, the singer was in the VIP section with three other women when he noticed another woman. He allegedly told Ibrahim to invite the woman to join him. The lady was with her husband, who became enraged and accused the singer of making advances on his wife while he was with her.
Burna Boy allegedly made new advances on the woman after a few minutes. This enraged her husband and his friends who had gathered at the club even more.
“As things were getting heated, Ibrahim brought out his service pistol and shot multiple times while Burna Boy was laughing,” said a senior policeman
In the process, 27-year-old Lawrence was shot in the thigh while his friend, Tolu, was hit in the head by a bullet. This caused 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.
“Aware of what he had done, Burna Boy took the next flight out without even informing the policemen. He only made a video call to them to inform them that he had traveled to Spain. All his police escorts have been arrested and are currently at the Command headquarters,” said a top source at the office of the Lagos State Commissioner of Police.
A friend of one of the victims said they came into Nigeria from the UK and US for a wedding, before the unfortunate incident happened.
''My Guys came to 9ja from England & Usa Respectively 4 a wedding.I invited dem out to club cubana a petty altercation with Burna Boy's people arose (Cos of woman).The next thing Bullets started flying , one got scraped in the head by a bullet and the other one got shot in the leg.
When we rushed him to the Naval Medic Center they said they had no blood and he needed 3 pints of O+ blood , they said none of us can donate because we had been drinking from the club and then my friend started to shake on the hospital bed like he was losing his life
Good samaritan soldiers then offered to give a pint of blood each which was then used to stabilize him. The doctor said the iphone in his pocket which the bullet went through slowed down the bullet making it less fatal , the iphone saved his life''
BurnaBoy is yet to make any statement regarding the allegation.
Confirming the incident, the spokesman for the Lagos State Police command, Benjamin Hundeyin, said the focus of the investigation was the policemen. Hundeyin said that the police had not received any complaint from any victim.
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