Fuji maestro in police net over shooting of female OOU student

Popular Fuji musician, Alhaji Wasiu Ayinde Anifowose, has been questioned by Ogun state police following the shooting of a female student of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago Iwoye, Kofoworola Azeez, at his show.

Kofoworola was on Sunday shot by an aide of the singer, who is popularly known as KWAM 1, during a musical show at the popular Limelite Hotel in Ago Iwoye, PM News reports.

The show, organized as part of the Ago-Iwoye Day celebration, ended due to the chaos that followed the shooting.

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Spokesman of the state policers commend, Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said KWAM 1, who left the scene with his team after the shooting, was invited for question on orders of the State Commissioner of Police, CP Abdulmajid Ali.

“Before the policemen got to the scene, the musician and his team had left the place,” he said.

"The Commissioner of Police has instructed that KWAM1 should be invited and he has been invited to tell the Police how it all happened and who among his band members pulled the trigger.

“We are expecting him to come and give us the account of everything that happened so as to assist us in our investigation.

"He is expected to come with his band boy that fired the gun."

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Adejobi said the victim is being treated after she was taken to the hospital by officers.

“We got the report of the incident and we have taken the victim to the hospital,"

"The bullet has been removed from the victim’s body."

gathered that Kofoworola was hit in the buttock by the bullet which entered through the rear door of the car she was sitting in.

She is reportedly responding to treatment at the General Hospital, Ijebu-Ode.