The Lagos State Police Command has arrested two security guards for lynching a site engineer, Solomon Ode Ogbaji, on a construction site at Eko Atlantic City.
The incident occurred on Friday, October 31, 2025.
According to the punch, some security guards were chasing suspected thieves when they sighted Ode close to a construction site and also labelled him a thief.
A police source who spoke to the publication on Thursday, November 13, said there had been concerns about some missing building materials in the area, adding that this prompted the security guards to apprehend and lynch him in the process.
“Some security guards were chasing some suspected thieves who tried to steal iron rods from the construction site in Eko Atlantic. Ode was later sighted in the area and accused of being one of the thieves. He kept pleading that he wasn’t among them, but they refused to listen. They beat him until he died and left his body by the riverbank,” the source said.