Hundeyin said the DPO of Ikoyi got information about the fire incident on Tuesday at about 12.40 p.m. from Falomo Police Barracks.
By Jeffrey Agbo
A senior police officer attached to the Lagos Police Command has lost his teenage son following a fire incident on Tuesday at Falamo Police Barracks, Ikoyi.
Spokesman of the Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday.
Hundeyin said that the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Ikoyi got information about the fire incident on Tuesday at about 12.40 p.m. from Falomo Police Barracks.
He said that the DPO was informed that on Tuesday about 9.00 p.m., fire gutted Room 24, Block 1 of ASP Godspower David, attached to Bar Beach Police Division, Victoria Island, Lagos.
The image maker said that based on the report, emergency responders were mobilised to the scene for rescue operation.
“The teams successfully put out the fire, however, during evacuation of the debris, corpse of one Emmanuel Godspower David, aged 15 years, the son of the officer consumed by the inferno, was found.
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“The corpse has been evacuated to a public morgue for autopsy, while investigation is in progress,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police in Lagos, CP Idowu Owohunwa, on Thursday, visited the bereaved officer at Falomo Police Barracks with the Deputy Commissioner of police, Operations, Isa Grema, to express their condolences.
Owohunwa, who was received by the officer and wife, said he got the information on Wednesday with sadness and decided to visit them in person due to the great loss.
The CP said he was pained about the human casualty from the fire.
He prayed that God should comfort the bereaved family and donated N500,000 to take care of their immediate expenses.