Two lovers were reportedly found dead in a Lagos hotel at about 6 am on Monday at the Fagaba area of Lagos state.
The two lovers, simply identified as John and Darasimi, were suspected to have been poisoned, according to sources.
A source, who mentioned that Darasimi’s sister was at the scene to take her sister’s corpse, said her sister was supposed to be in school and not in a hotel.
The source said; “We suspect that they must have been poisoned because we found them lifeless in their hotel room. The girl’s elder sister, who came to retrieve her corpse, said her family members’ thought she was in school only to discover her in a hotel room with her boyfriend.”
Muyiwa Adejobi, the state Police Public Relations Officer, revealed that their death is too sudden and strange, while also saying the state Commissioner of Police had ordered the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department to investigate the incident.
Adejobi said; “On Monday, March 8, 2021, around 8 am, one Niyi Adeduro, the manager of the Rose tree hotel, located at No. 7 Akinyele Street, off Jonathan Coker Road, new Oko Oba, came to the station and reported that one John Lekan and his girlfriend, one Oluwadara, lodged in his hotel the previous night, but unfortunately, this morning (Monday) around 6 am, they were found dead.
Lekan was lying in front of the room and Oluwadara was inside the car. Their corpses have been evacuated to the Mainland Hospital for autopsy.
The state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has ordered the Homicide Section of the SCIID Panti, to take over the case and carry out a thorough investigation into the matter.”
