Trouble started Sunday 15th August 2020, at about 8:30am, when the middle age man identified as Izuchukwu Achusim, 42-year-old who resides at No. 35 Guest House Street, Fegge, area of Onitsha, took his to swim.
A press statement by the Anambra State Police Command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Haruna Muhammed, the jumbed inside the swimming pool with the intention to swim but met his untimely death.
According to him, “On the 15/8/2020 at about 8:30pm, there was a report at Central Police Station Onitsha that one Izuchukwu Achusim ‘m’ aged 42 years of NO. 35 Guest house street ,fegge went to Lotus Garden hotel in Onitsha with his girl friend to Swim inside the swimming pool.
“However, victim who was said to be drunk jumped into the deepest part of the pool and got drowned. The hotel manager and other guests pulled the victim out and rushed him to waterside hospital Onitsha for medical attention but he was later certified death by a medical Doctor on duty.
“Scene was visited by Police detectives and corpse photographed and deposited at the hospital mortuary for autopsy, Haruna, said.
Meanwhile, case is under investigation to ascertain circumstances surrounding the incident.
However, the Command enjoined the public who lacked swimming skills to always take precautionary measures by using life jackets provided at the swimming pool in order to avert similar ugly incidents.
