SLAIN MD OF LEKKI TO BE BURIED TODAY

Twenty-four hours after the Managing Director of Lekki Free Trade Zone, LFTZ, Mr. Tajudeen Disu, was murdered at Lekki, scores of sympathisers thronged his home to pay condolence to the wife, Dr. Folashade Disu, his children and other members of the Eletu-Odibo royal family.
This came on a day Magistrate Folashade Botoku of an Ebute-Meta Magistrate’s Court sitting at Oyingbo remanded 17 suspects in prison custody over their alleged involvement in his killing.
Some villagers in neighbouring communities in Ibeju Lekki area of Lagos alleged that Monday’s protest at Okunraiye which led to Disu’s death, was instigated by some leaders of the community which became a ghost town yesterday.
Among the early visitors were Chief Remi Makanjuola, former board chairman of Lagos State Security Trust Fund, LSSTF, Mrs. Derin Disu, former Special Adviser to Lagos State Governor on Central Business District, CBD, former Commissioner for Commerce and Industry in Lagos State, Mrs. Olusola Oworu and the chairman, Lekki Free Zone Development Company, Otunba Olusegun Jawando and others.
Also at the home of the deceased were several imams from Surulere, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo, and members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, who prayed for the repose of the soul of the deceased.
The widow, Dr. Folashade Disu lamented that her husband was shot in the neck while pacifying residents of the community who, had earlier in the day protested acquisition of their land by investors and Lagos State Government.
“While addressing the community representatives over the issue he was called to address, my husband was shut in his neck from behind,” she explained.
It was learned yesterday that the deceased who was in his late 60s, received a call from residents in the community who asked him to resolve an ongoing protest over the acquisition of the land for the EPZ project.
He had often mediated whenever the residents raised issue against the government and the investors.
While addressing the community representatives, he was reportedly shot from behind and it was gathered that the residents didn’t do the shooting but may have hired a killer to perpetrate the act.
Sources said the deceased was rushed to St. Nicolas Hospital on Lagos Island and was later transferred to Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, where the bullet was removed.