Spokesman of the Lagos State Police Command Benjamin Hundeyin said investigation into the death of chairman of Victoria Garden City (VGC) Residents Association in Lekki Gihan Mbelu has begun.
Mr Hundeyin stated this while commenting on Saturday on a post by an X user Deji Lambo who tweeted that the 42-year-old man Mbelu was found unconscious in his C300 4Matic car.
“Investigation has commenced into this,” the police spokesperson wrote.
According to Lambo, “It was gathered that Mbelu was found unconscious around 10.10 am on Friday when people decided to inspect his vehicle which had been running for hours at the spot where it was parked around VGC, in the Ajah area of the state.
“Concerned by the discovery, some of the people in the area, upon close observation of the vehicle, found Mbelu in it.
“While some people speculated that the 42-year-old man might be sleeping, some other persons, who were bent on ascertaining Mbelu’s true state, reportedly made frantic efforts to wake him up but it proved abortive.”
Mbelu was pronounced dead at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, and his body was deposited in the hospital’s morgue.
Following this, the case was reported to the police for an investigation to commence to ascertain the circumstances surrounding Mbelu’s death.
