A security guard who was arraigned before a Lagos State High Court in Igbosere on charges of murder, told the court that bullet from his gun killed a Babcock student but he never fired the gun.
The
security guard, Azeez Ibrahim, who was accused of killing a 22-year-old
female undergraduate of the Babcock University identified as Adebusayo
Ogunkoya at a birthday party in a hotel in the Ikorodu area of Lagos
State on July 5, 2014, was allegedly drunk at the time of the incident.
A witness at the scene of the incident said;
“THE
PARTY WAS GOING ON FINE UNTIL THE SECURITY MAN, WHO WAS HOLDING A GUN,
WHICH HE CLAIMED HE HAD SEIZED FROM SOME ROBBERS, MISHANDLED THE GUN AND
FIRED A SHOT, WHICH HIT BUSAYO. THE GUARD WAS SAID TO BE DRUNK.”
However
the security guard who defended himself in court, said he did not know
how the bullet left the gun and killed the deceased. According to him,
the men who came with the victim struggled to take the gun away from
him.
“I AM NOT TRAINED IN HANDLING PUMP ACTION GUN BY THE OPC; I
WAS TRAINED AS A SECURITY MAN, BUT I DON’T HAVE A CERTIFICATE TO THAT
EFFECT.
“THE BOYS, WHO CAME TO THE HOTEL ON THE DAY OF THE
INCIDENT, WERE MEMBERS OF THE EIYE CONFRATERNITY. I HAD ONLY WORKED AT
THE HOTEL FOR SIX MONTHS WHEN THE INCIDENT HAPPENED, BUT I KNOW THAT THE
MEN WERE CULTISTS FROM THEIR BEHAVIOUR.
“I DIDN’T FIRE THE SHOT THAT DAY; IT IS ONLY GOD THAT KNOWS HOW THE BULLET LEFT MY GUN AND KILLED THE DECEASED” HE SAID.
Ibrahim
who claimed to be a member of the Odua People’s Congress, maintained
that the men were members of the Eiye Confraternity because they had
been arrested before. Punch reported that Justice Ogunsanya adjourned
the matter till February 6, 2019, for the continuation of trial.
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