Burnaboy action during and after the shooting incident at the popular Club last week has continue to get many concerns. Preliminary report by the Bar Beach Police Division said trouble started when the singer and five police escorts visited the nightclub around 4 am on June 8.
Sunday Punch earlier reported that about four policemen had waited outside while one of the policemen, identified as Inspector Ibrahim, who was in mufti, accompanied the Grammy-Award-winning artiste into the club.
According to multiple witness statements, the singer was in the VIP section with three women when he spotted another woman. He was reported to have told Ibrahim to invite the woman to join him.
However, the lady’s husband was said to have lambasted the singer, insisting that it was disrespectful for any man to make advances on his wife. After some minutes, Burna Boy reportedly made fresh advances at the woman.
This infuriated her husband further and his friends who had gathered at the club. “As things were getting heated, Ibrahim brought out his service pistol and shot multiple times while Burna Boy was laughing,” a senior policeman had been quoted as saying.
In the process, 27-year-old Lawrence was shot in the thigh while his friend, Tolu, was hit in the head by a bullet. This caused a commotion in the club.
It was learnt that Burna Boy and his crew then drove off to one of his properties at the Elegushi end of the Lekki-Epe Expressway before leaving for Lekki Phase 1.
“Aware of what he had done, Burna Boy took the next flight out without even informing the policemen. He only made a video call to them to inform them that he had travelled to Spain. All his police escorts have been arrested and are currently at the Command headquarters,” a top source at the office of the Lagos State Commissioner of Police had also said.
Sources close to the victims said the police were trying to protect the Grammy Award winner because of his status while the victims were treating their wounds at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja.
A brother of Irebami, one of the victims, Jide, said his brother had undergone surgery to remove the bullet lodged in his thigh. Jide said Irebami is based in the US, and only came to Nigeria a week ago for a wedding.
According to him, the management of Club Cubana was also complicit for not doing enough to forestall the situation. He said the club management had not even reached out to the family since the incident occurred.
The spokesman for the state police command, Benjamin Hundeyin, had said the focus of the investigation was the policemen. Hundeyin claimed that the police had not received any complaint from any victim.