The Lagos State, Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has ordered an investigation into the death of Mutiu Agbosasa.
\nAgbosasa was murdered and burnd at his residence in Ginti Estate, Ijede, Ikorodu.
\nPolice Public Relations Officer, DSP Bala Elkana, in a statement yesterday, said, last Sunday at about 2.30 am, one Rohis Adamu Dana, Agbosasa\u2019s security man reported at Ijede Police Station that his boss sent him to call officers.
\n\u201cA team of Policemen led by the Divisional Police Officer rushed to the scene\u201d, it said.
\n\u201cPolice found the corpse of the victim in his vehicle burnt beyond recognition. The crime scene was cordoned off for forensic examination.
\n\u201cHomicide detectives and forensic experts from the State Criminal Investigation Department were deployed to the scene for analysis.
\n\u201cThe corpse of the deceased person was evacuated to hospital for autopsy. The security guard who is 44 days old in the employment, was placed into custody for questioning.
\n\u201cIn his statement, Adamu Dana said on 14\/12\/2019 at about 10. 30pm, he opened the gate for his boss to drive into the house and while closing the gate, four strange men entered the house through the pedestrian gate.
\n\u201cThat he heard his boss shouting that he should run and call the Police. That it did not occur to him to call the neighbouring security guards for help.
\n\u201cInvestigation is ongoing with a view to unravel the circumstances surrounding his death and to identify those behind the gruesome murder. Meanwhile, security is beefed up in the Estate.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Lagos State, Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has ordered an investigation into the death of Mutiu Agbosasa. Agbosasa was murdered and burnd at his residence in Ginti Estate, Ijede, Ikorodu. Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bala Elkana, in a statement yesterday, said, last Sunday at about 2.30 am, one Rohis Adamu Dana, Agbosasa\u2019s security […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/218639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}