Funmi Odusina, 24, and Adesola Ogunmefun, 27, were swept away by heavy tide on Sunday during the birthday celebration of a friend, simply identified as Bolu.
Deputy Registrar (Information) Mr Toyin Adebule said the institution knew nothing about the party, adding:
“They are postgraduate students. They were not on our assignment. They were there on their own. What can we do?
We were not aware that they went there. Please leave the UNILAG out of this. We can only commiserate with the families. It is a coroner case and the police should handle this. If it happened in our lagoon now, we would have been involved. But when students are out of the institution, they are not under our watch. The Dean, Students Affairs (DSA) and Dean of Postgraduate Studies would contact the families on our behalf,” Adebule said.”
Family members and friends yesterday took to social media to relive their last moments with the deceased.
Odusina was brought out of the water dead by local divers; Ogunmefun died after being rescued. Bolu Akinyokun, who survived, was discharged from the hospital yesterday.
It was gathered that Funmi whose father’s birthday, according to her elder brother, Gbenga Odusina, was last Monday, boycotted a family function that Sunday to attend Bolu’s beach party.
The Nation learnt that the families are insisting on autopsy on the bodies, which are still at the Lagos Island General Hospital mortuary.
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