What was meant to be a colourful Christmas celebration went awry on Friday after a 14-year-old boy, Samson Akingbade, drowned in a swimming pool of a hotel in Ijako, Sango-Ota, Ogun State.
Akingbade and his friends had gone to the hotel to have fun, playing around the premises. They were said to have extended the fun to the swimming pool section of the hotel.
Lost in his moment of happiness, the young boy drowned in the process without his friends realizing this on time.
The sight of the deceased body floating in the swimming pool was said to have sparked confusion in the hotel.
According to eye witnesses, an angry mob wanted to wreck havoc in the facility following the tragedy.
The mob condemned the hotel operators for improper management of the facility which they said led to the death.
As a result of that, some youths stormed the hotel to foment trouble but the police responded promptly to douse the tension and restore normalcy.
A source stated;
The boy was swimming in the hotel and drowned. As a result of that, some youths stormed the hotel to foment trouble but the police responded promptly to douse the tension and restore normalcy.
The boy went to the hotel with his friends. The problem is that the hotel does not have a lifeguard. It was an avoidable death if they had a lifeguard.
Another source explained that the hotel was abruptly shut down to avert a riot, adding that the boy’s corpse was evacuated by the police from Sango Division.
He expressed;
I learnt that the boy and his friends came from Sango but I don’t know their address. It was police intervention that doused the tension. Youths were angry that the hotel failed to provide a lifeguard who could have observed that the boy had drowned and rescued him.
While confirming Akingbade’s death, The police spokesperson in the state, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi added that the boy’s corpse had been deposited in a mortuary for autopsy.
Oyeyemi expressed;
One Samson Akingbade, 14, was at the hotel with his friends. They were swimming when he drowned. Some boys wanted to attack the hotel but the police quickly took over the situation and restored normalcy.
