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Five
police escorts attached to top music artiste, Damini Ogulu, popularly known as
Burna Boy, has been arrested for attempted murder after they shot two
fun-seekers, Irebami Lawrence and Tolu, at Club Cubana in Lagos last Wednesday.
According to a preliminary police report by
the Bar Beach Police Division in Lagos State, trouble started around 4am on
June 8, 2022 when the musician and the five police escorts visited Club Cubana
in Victoria Island.
Four of the police escort waited outside
while one of the policemen identified as Inspector Ibrahim, who was plain
clothed, accompanied Burna Boy into the club.
According to reports, the singer was in the
VIP section with three women when he spotted another woman. The Grammy
Award-winning artiste allegedly told Inspector Ibrahim to invite the woman to
come join him.
This gesture annoyed the lady’s husband, who
was said to have lambasted Burna Boy, saying it was disrespectful for any man
to make advances at a married woman.Four of the police escort waited outside
while one of the policemen identified as Inspector Ibrahim, who was plain
clothed, accompanied Burna Boy into the club.
According to reports, the singer was in the
VIP section with three women when he spotted another woman. The Grammy Award-winning
artiste allegedly told Inspector Ibrahim to invite the woman to come join him.
This gesture annoyed the lady’s husband, who
was said to have lambasted Burna Boy, saying it was disrespectful for any man
to make advances at a married woman.
After some minutes, Burna Boy was said to
have make advances towards the woman again, a development that further
infuriated her husband and his friends who had gathered at the club and the
matter soon degenerated.
“As things were getting heated, Ibrahim
brought out his service pistol and released fire 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 commotion in the club.
Some people brought out their phones to
record what was happening but the policemen began snatching and smashing the
phones.
“They eventually made their way out of the
club and also shot into the air in order to escape. While all this happened, the
Cubana management did nothing about it. In the first place, they ought not to
have allowed anyone to bring in a gun into the club,” said a senior policeman.
It was learnt that Burna Boy and his crew
drove off to one of his properties in the Elegushi end of the Lekki-Epe
Expressway and later Lekki Phase 1.
“Aware of what he had done, Burna Boy took
the next flight out without even informing his policemen. He only called them
on video later to inform them that he had travelled 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.
