by Oke Efagene

A 17-year-old girl, simply identified as Agnes, who went to a beach in Lagos with her boyfriend on Christmas Day has drowned.

Agnes was said to have left her residence at Ajegunle, Kirikiri Road, to the Bar Beach in Victoria Island, with her lover, Emmanuel, but never returned home.

Emmanuel was reportedly called by his friend, Taiwo, around 4 pm to announce that the girl had drowned. Taiwo, however, said that they were still waiting to see if she could float, so that they would recover the body.

Leadership reports:

Taiwo told this reporter at the beach that Emmanuel had earlier informed him that he was going to the Bar Beach with his girlfriend and promised to meet them there. When he arrived there with his girlfriend and later called his friend (Emmanuel), he shocked him with the sad news.

“I do not even know the beach where Emmanuel took Agnes to,” he said. Taiwo said that when he wanted to inquire about the beach, Emmanuel’s phone was switched off. “I wonder if he can face the girl’s parents. To tell them that their only daughter drowned,” he lamented.

In another development, a 12-year-old who accompanied his brother to the beach was declared missing.

The boy identified as Charles, was said to have left their residence in Mushin on Christmas Day, but was declared missing by his elder brother, Anthony.

Anthony told LEADERSHIP Friday that Charles was playing around the Lekki Beach, with some boys his age when he left them and decided to go for a walk with his girlfriend, Mercy. When he returned from the stroll, though, he could not find Charles again. “What will I tell my family?” Anthony cried out aloud, saying that the news would kill his mother. Meanwhile, his friends were still searching for the missing boy late into the evening, without success.