By Walter Fine Country, Yenagoa
The police in Bayelsa State are on the trail of some students of Federal University, Otuoke, following the discovery of the dead body of their colleague floating in a private swimming pool in the town.
The deceased, Bright Akhere, a 21 -year old 200-level Mathematics student was said to have gone swimming with his friends in a swimming pool at an event centre in the Otuoke community, Ogbia Local Government Area, Bayelsa state on the 24th of this month.
Reports say the students left the swimming pool at 5 O’clock in the evening without their colleague and that they did not event make any efforts to look for him when they could not find him.
Bright’s body was found the following day floating in the swimming pool.
In a statement, Police spokesman, Asinim Butswat, said that on 25th April 2023, at about 2000 hours the Command got a report that a corpse was found floating in a swimming pool at a popular event Center at Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area.
“Preliminary investigation reveals that the deceased Bright Akhere, 21 years, a student from the Department of Mathematics in the Federal University Otuoke, was with his friends at the swimming pool the previous evening, 24th April and the friends left the pool at about 1700 hours.
“A team of operatives visited the scene and evacuated the corpse to the mortuary for autopsy. Police are on the trail of the friends who are now at large. The investigation is ongoing to unravel the circumstances surrounding the suspected drowning of the student”.
(Nigerian Tribune)
