Elegushi beach managers arrested by Police over drowned UNILAG students

25-year-old Funmi Odusina and Adesola Ogunmefun were having fun with their friend, Bolu on the beach on Sunday during a birthday celebration when they were submerged by strong wave which swept them into the beach. They graduated from the Covenant University and were on Master’s Degrees programme in International Law and Diplomacy in UNILAG.

Bolu and Odusina were said to have been rushed to some private hospitals in the area which rejected them, while Ogunmefun was brought out dead. Bolu later survived but, Odusina died on the way to the Lagos Island General Hospital.

The Lagos State Police Command shave confirmed to have arrested two managers of the Elegushi Beach in Ajah where the two postgraduate students of the University of Lagos drowned.

Families and friends of deceased had blamed the deaths on the alleged failure of the beach management to provide necessary safety devices like life guards, a wave alarm system, an ambulance and a medical unit at the facility and condemned the indifference of the hospitals that rejected the victims.

Odusina’s elder sister, Bukola, had also lamented that the incident shattered her sister’s dreams to become a philanthropist, an ambassador and a mechanised farmer, calling on the government to ensure that the beach had adequate safety devices.