LASU Murder: Police Comb Hideouts, Arrest 50 Suspects

By Chiemelie Ezeobi

No fewer than 50 suspects has been arrested by the Area E Command of the Lagos State Police Command, under the command of the Area Commander, Dan Okoro, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, in connection with the death of late Damilola Damoche, a 400 level student of the Lagos State University (LASU).

The deceased who was nurturing his singing career was shot dead last Thursday by suspected cultists in front of the school gate, arousing fear of a reprisal attack from the opposing faction.


The 25-year-old final year student of Banking and Finance who has since been buried was said to have been murdered in cold blood barely minutes after he had written a test in his class.

With the murder, the command had pledged its commitment to seeing justice done. From preliminary investigations and intensive surveillance, an intelligence report was gathered by the police who set out to comb the hideout of the suspects and proceeded to make some arrests.

Although efforts to confirm the arrests from the state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ngozi Braide, proved abortive, THISDAY yet gathered that the arrest was to reassure members of the public that the matter has not  been swept under the carpet as claimed in some quarters.

However, police sources who spoke on strict conditions of anonymity, told THISDAY that the command was not taking the murder lightly and is out to ensure that the culprits are brought to book within the ambits of the law.

The source however debunked the rumours that made the rounds over the weekend which claimed that a reprisal attack by an opposing cult group had claimed the lives of some students of the university.

The alleged reprisal attack might have not be unconnected to the gory pictures that was circulated all over internet showing a yet-to-be identified person whose brains were supposedly shattered by a bullet.

THISDAY gathered that the suspects had been transferred to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja, under the command of the Officer-in-Charge, SP Abba Kyari, for further investigation.