A 20-Year-Old Male identified as Tunde Fajobi tragically passed away after a swimming accident at the AM 2 PM hotel in Ibafo, following an unauthorised use of the hotel’s pool.
It was learnt on Wednesday that the incident happened on September 29, 2024, at about 11:30 am.
One of our correspondents gathered that the deceased, who attended a party at the hotel with his friends, reportedly went to use the hotel’s pool without informing anyone and without knowing how to swim.
A resident of the area, who pleaded anonymity because he was not authorised to speak with the media, told newsmen that the deceased was lodged at the hotel, but went to use the pool without knowing how to swim and without telling anyone.
“Something like that happened last week. The young man went to swim but didn’t even know how to swim. He was part of those who lodged at the hotel. He didn’t know how to swim and didn’t tell anyone he wanted to go and swim. Nobody was aware he wanted to swim. It’s when they noticed he was struggling to swim that they quickly took him out of the pool and rescued him”, she said.
Another resident who was around when the incident happened said, “We suspect that he might have been drunk because he left where everybody was and went to the pool alone.”
The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, in a statement obtained by our correspondent on Wednesday, confirmed the incident noting that the deceased used the pool without permission from the relevant quarters.
“The name of the deceased is Tunde Fajobi (m) aged 20 years. He came to a party with his friends at the AM-PM Hotel. After the party, he went to the pool that was locked and accessed it. But he was later discovered to have drowned in the pool by the hotel management. He was rushed to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead on arrival. All this happened on 29/09/2024,” the statement read.
