Body of Missing Police Inspector Resurfaces in Lagos Waterfront

Chiemelie Ezeobi

Almost nine months after Inspector Musa Sunday of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) disappeared from radar while responding to a distress call, his body yesterday resurfaced at the Ibeju-Lekki waterfront.

Months of due diligence and undercover investigations however paid off as an informant who revealed that the community members were sworn to an oath of secrecy, tipped off the police.

When the informant took the police team to the waterfront, they dug up his decomposed body and his service rifle, an AK47.

When the body was found, the police immediately swung into action and arrested the Baale of Oshoroko Village, Chief Olusegun Oyeri, alongside three others who were identified as Aroki Badiru, Nasiru Isiaka and Akeem Balogun alias Apollo.

Confirming the incident, the state Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, said the deceased was declared missing on November 29, 2016.

He said: “Inspector Musa Sunday disappeared from a scene of crime in Ibeju-Lekki when he and other officers were deployed to that axis from Ibeju up to Lekki Free Trade Zone.

“In the course of that patrol, they were alerted by the community of a communal fight between two families over land issues.

“Dutifully, they joined the informant but on getting there, one of the community callously turned against the patrol team and at the end of the fight, the team returned but without Sunday.”