A senior police officer with the Lagos State Police Command lost his 15-year-old son in a fire at the Falamo Police Barracks in Ikoyi, Lagos.
SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, confirmed the tragic incident, saying the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Ikoyi, received information about it.
Hundeyin stated that the DPO was informed that a fire destroyed Room 24, Block 1 of ASP Godspower David, attached to the Bar Beach Police Division in Victoria Island, Lagos, on Tuesday around 9.00 p.m.
According to report, emergency responders were mobilised and deployed to the scene for a rescue operation but the boy did not survive the inferno.
“The teams successfully put out the fire, however, during the evacuation of the debris, the corpse of one Emmanuel Godspower David, aged 15 years, the son of the officer consumed by the inferno, was found.
“The corpse has been evacuated to a public morgue for autopsy, while an 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, Mr 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 he donated N500,000 to take care of their immediate expenses.