11-Year-Old boy reportedly drowns In hotel swimming Pool

An 11-year-old teenager, Iremide Opeifa, has drowned in a swimming pool at the Grand Bank Link Hotels along Idiroko Road in the Sango Ota area of Ogun State.

According to report, the incident happened on Sunday evening.

The boy, Iremide had finished assisting his mother at her shop in the area before he left for the hotel where he drowned in the pool.

The younger sister of the deceased’s mother, Kehinde Opeifa, who spoke to our correspondent, alleged that no efforts were made by the hotel to provide any medical care for Iremide before his mother arrived at the hotel.

She added that no lifeguard was in sight on the hotel premises to keep swimmers safe.

She said, “Iremide and his brother were assisting their mother in the shop before she left to buy some things for them as they were planning to resume school on Monday. His brother said he wanted to urinate on their way home, and after that, he did not see him again. So, he went back to the shop.