Three UNIABUJA students arrested for death of colleague in swimming pool
The FCT command of the Nigeria Police Force has arrested three students of the University of Abuja over the death of their colleague, Emmanuel Balogun, who drowned in a swimming pool. Balogun, who was 17 years old, was said to have gone to The Dome, a fun spot in Abuja along with friends over the weekend when the incident occurred. It was alleged that after the teenager drowned, his colleagues abandoned him and watched him drown. According to CCTV footage obtained by the police, the suspects took the deceased’s phones and money and returned to school without informing anyone of what had happened. According to a friend of the family, it was a female friend that eventually informed his mother the next day. She said, “A very dear friend’s undergraduate’s 17-year old son got drowned at the Dome hotel pool in Abuja last weekend. He was in the company of his friends. The friends neither reported to the hotel management what happened nor to the deceased’s parents. “They went back to the schoo...