The Lagos State Police Command says it has yet to arrest any management staff of Paulson Hotel, Ketu, where twin brothers and their friend were murdered by a drunk policeman.
The Deputy Commissioner of Police, State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) Panti, Yaba, Mr Abiodun Odude, made the disclosure on Tuesday in Lagos.
He spoke while giving an update on the incident which occurred on Saturday on Anibaba Street, Ketu-Ikosi, Lagos.
“We have yet to arrest anybody from the hotel. The manager is on the run. We have not been able to effect arrest of any management staff.
“The Homicide Unit is investigating the case. We are looking for the manager and other management staff that run the hotel,’’ Odude said.
A drunken policeman, one Sergeant Stephen James, on Saturday, shot dead three male customers at Paulson Hotel, over their refusal to buy him drinks and killed himself thereafter.
The said killer cop worked with Mopol 22, GRA Ikeja before killing the twins, their friend and himself about 4.20 p.m. on Saturday.
The deceased twin brothers were identified as Taiwo and Kehinde Oyesunle and their friend simply identified as Jeje.
One of the twins, Kehinde and their friend Jeje were buried in Ikorodu on Sunday and Monday respectively, while Taiwo, who was a Navy personnel was taken away by the Navy authorities for burial.
As at the time of filing this report, the hotel had been completely deserted by staff and guests as the facility was vandalised by irate youths in the area.
Policemen led by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) at Ketu Police Station arrived at the scene on the fateful day and removed the corpses.
At the home of the murdered twins, members of their family called on the police authorities to do the right thing for the family as they could not demand for compensation.
A son in-law of the family, Mr Segun Sodunke, who is the husband to the immediate older sister of the twins, Olufunke, made the call.
He said that “no amount of money could compensate for the lives of Kehinde and Taiwo Oyesunle’’, describing their deaths as a calamity too many.
Sodunke urged the police authorities to check officers in uniform with guns who were always drunk.
He noted that in spite of the cries by Nigerians against careless killings by the police, nothing seems to be happening to culprits.
Sodunke said the police had wanted all the corpses to be buried at the same place, but the family and the Navy refused, hence, Jeje was buried in Ikorodu on Sunday by his sister.
“My wife is the immediate older sister to the twins killed by the policeman at the hotel.
“The Commissioner of Police in Lagos was at Ketu Police Station on Sunday where he addressed the families involved.
“He advised them to bury the dead bodies instead of punishing them more by keeping them in the mortuary.
“But he did not visit the mother of the twins or any member of the family to commiserate with them,’’ he said.
Sodunke said that the twins’ mother had just returned home two weeks ago after the burial of her husband in June.
“She was with us after staying with her eldest daughter in Abuja and while she was trying to settle down, this incident happened,’’ he said.
Sodunke said that the woman lost her first son, who was a lecturer at Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun State about 10 years ago, when he disappeared without any trace until now.
“It is a very sad situation,’’ Sodunke retorted.
