TRAGIC:
Teenage boys die in hotel pool, discovered days after
...Death mysterious, suspicious - Parents
...Calls on Delta Govt., Police for Justice
...Death mysterious, suspicious - Parents
...Calls on Delta Govt., Police for Justice
By Elo Edremoda
Two teenage boys were on Wednesday found dead in the swimming pool of Golden Tulip Warri-Airport Hotels, Effurun, Delta state.
According to accounts given by the deceased parents and relatives yesterday, the bodies of the 15-year olds, Samson Omagbemi and Darlington Taire, were only discovered two days after the tragic occurrence.
Doubtful of the circumstances leading to their deaths, the grieving families have however, called on both the Delta state government and the state's police command to unravel the cause of their demise and bring the killers to justice.
Investigations revealed that on Monday, June 12, Omagbemi and Taire had taken to the four-star hotel's pool, alongside other friends, to celebrate the completion of their Junior Secondary School Certificate Examination (JSSCE), but ended up dead.
It should be noted that barely 24hours after the boys' disappearance, officials of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), sealed off the hotel for over N15.6 million tax debt and just a day after, the corpses emerged.
They were both students of Challenge Secondary School, Kolokolo in Enerhen, Uvwie council area of the state.
Omagbemi, is nephew of the head coach of Nigeria's Super Falcons, Florence Omagbemi.
Both families said although they were not informed of any plan by a teacher in their school, identified as Mr Robinson, they were surprised to receive the news of the death of their sons on Wednesday, after two days of futile searching.
Recounting their findings, Henry Omagbemi and Morrison Taire, uncle and father respectively, said the corpses of the boys were said to have been found in the pool on Wednesday, two days after they got missing, with their faces swollen and traces of blood from the nose and mouth.
He further called on the Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim Khotoun Idris to investigate and bring to justice anyone culpable for the deaths of the two students.
"We went to the mortuary and saw the two students in the mortuary. They didn’t look like people who were in the pool because the mouth and the face were bleeding. But the legs were intact. If somebody is drowned in the pool you will see some signs of swollen stuff and all that but nothing like that. Before we finished, the two people that went with us, disappeared on Wednesday.
"We want justice to be done. It looks mysterious to us. We want justice to be done. The truth of the whole thing should be told to us. Covering somebody’s corpse is something else. Taking somebody’s corpse to mortuary without the knowledge of the person's family and all that looks suspicious", Omagbemi said.
Efforts to reach the hotel's management was unfruitful as he was said to be away from his office. A female staff of the hotel, named Mukoro, however disclosed that menders of the swimming pool were the ones who discovered the corpses on Wednesday.
Although she denied claims that the teenagers came to swim in the company of any adult, she said they paid their ticket fees individually and confirmed that the deceased boys came along with others on Monday and their corpses were discovered on Wednesday.
The Delta state police command is yet to confirm the development as the spokesman, DSP Andrew Aniamaka, could not be reached. However, a reliable source at the Ebrumede Police Division said that three persons, including two of the boys who went swimming with the deceased and a life guard at the pool were in police custody.
Two teenage boys were on Wednesday found dead in the swimming pool of Golden Tulip Warri-Airport Hotels, Effurun, Delta state.
According to accounts given by the deceased parents and relatives yesterday, the bodies of the 15-year olds, Samson Omagbemi and Darlington Taire, were only discovered two days after the tragic occurrence.
Doubtful of the circumstances leading to their deaths, the grieving families have however, called on both the Delta state government and the state's police command to unravel the cause of their demise and bring the killers to justice.
Investigations revealed that on Monday, June 12, Omagbemi and Taire had taken to the four-star hotel's pool, alongside other friends, to celebrate the completion of their Junior Secondary School Certificate Examination (JSSCE), but ended up dead.
It should be noted that barely 24hours after the boys' disappearance, officials of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), sealed off the hotel for over N15.6 million tax debt and just a day after, the corpses emerged.
They were both students of Challenge Secondary School, Kolokolo in Enerhen, Uvwie council area of the state.
Omagbemi, is nephew of the head coach of Nigeria's Super Falcons, Florence Omagbemi.
Both families said although they were not informed of any plan by a teacher in their school, identified as Mr Robinson, they were surprised to receive the news of the death of their sons on Wednesday, after two days of futile searching.
Recounting their findings, Henry Omagbemi and Morrison Taire, uncle and father respectively, said the corpses of the boys were said to have been found in the pool on Wednesday, two days after they got missing, with their faces swollen and traces of blood from the nose and mouth.
He further called on the Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim Khotoun Idris to investigate and bring to justice anyone culpable for the deaths of the two students.
"We went to the mortuary and saw the two students in the mortuary. They didn’t look like people who were in the pool because the mouth and the face were bleeding. But the legs were intact. If somebody is drowned in the pool you will see some signs of swollen stuff and all that but nothing like that. Before we finished, the two people that went with us, disappeared on Wednesday.
"We want justice to be done. It looks mysterious to us. We want justice to be done. The truth of the whole thing should be told to us. Covering somebody’s corpse is something else. Taking somebody’s corpse to mortuary without the knowledge of the person's family and all that looks suspicious", Omagbemi said.
Efforts to reach the hotel's management was unfruitful as he was said to be away from his office. A female staff of the hotel, named Mukoro, however disclosed that menders of the swimming pool were the ones who discovered the corpses on Wednesday.
Although she denied claims that the teenagers came to swim in the company of any adult, she said they paid their ticket fees individually and confirmed that the deceased boys came along with others on Monday and their corpses were discovered on Wednesday.
The Delta state police command is yet to confirm the development as the spokesman, DSP Andrew Aniamaka, could not be reached. However, a reliable source at the Ebrumede Police Division said that three persons, including two of the boys who went swimming with the deceased and a life guard at the pool were in police custody.
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