Lagos students drown during WASSCE ‘party’
NEWS DIGEST – Four out of 10 teenage secondary school leavers, aged between 14 and 15, drowned at the Elegushi Beach, in the Lekki, Lagos State.
The affected students of the Kuramo Senior College, Lekki together with their colleagues went to swim at the beach to celebrate the completion of their West African Senior School Examination.
In a statement by the spokesperson for the Elegushi Beach Management on Tuesday, Chief Ayuba Elegushi said the pupils were not appropriately enlisted to swim in the beach.
“We initially sent them away from the area of the beach they wanted to swim in. Then, they went to another place that was not for the public at all. It was the child of our kinsman, Abass, who took them from school to the beach and those kids followed him.
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“They did not pay any gate fee to access the beach. Abass used the leverage that he was one of us to take them through another place,” he said.
“Out of the six that were rescued, some escaped by the time we got there. We were able to arrest two of them and we took them to the Jakande Police Station.
“As of now, there are still four missing as our seamen have not been able to bring them out of the water. We have informed their parents and they have come to the police station.
“Abass is one of the missing kids. There is another boy we have not identified and two other girls,” he added.
Confirming the incident, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin disclosed the incident is under investigation.
He said, “The teenagers were from Kuramo Senior College, Lekki. Four of them are missing. They are two males and two females. Efforts are on to recover their bodies. We have yet to meet with the parents of the victims.”
