Speaking to journalists, the leader of the robbery gang, Omotore, 27, confessed that they were the ones that carried out the attack on Mr 2kay on the instructions of Burna Boy’s road manager, Joel Kantiock who told him that his boss gave the orders. The police have since declared Burna Boy wanted to answer to the allegations made against him.
On that day, I was at home when Joel called me on the telephone and said Mr. 2Kay had to be beaten up. that Mr. 2Kay had issues with Burna Boy. When I got to the hotel, he gave me the room number where Mr. 2Kay was. There were three other guys there and Joel took all of us to the elevator and instructed the security man to open the elevator for us.
When we got to Mr 2kay’s room, we beat him and tied him. We also took his wristwatches and other valuable items
One of the robbers, Identified as Igwe who is also a student of the University of Lagos, said he volunteered to beat up Mr 2kay because he is a big fan of Burna Boy. He stated that he was contacted on the phone by Omotore, who later picked him at Bariga. They subsequently went to Eko Hotel together.
However, Joel Kantiock has denied that he contracted anyone on behalf of his boss to beat up and rob Mr 2kay. He also claimed that he had no idea the two artists were having issues.
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Your word against mine. How difficult is it to investigate this? Not very just go through their call logs and this will be sorted. Lazy investigators