{"id":69565,"date":"2025-07-03T10:15:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T10:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69565"},"modified":"2025-07-03T10:15:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T10:15:32","slug":"lagos-shuts-purple-mall-over-mans-death-in-parking-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/03\/lagos-shuts-purple-mall-over-mans-death-in-parking-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos Shuts Purple Mall Over Man\u2019s Death in Parking Lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Lagos State Government has sealed off Purple Mall in Lekki following the tragic death of a 28-year-old man, Obinna, who fell from the mall\u2019s multi-level parking structure.<\/p>\n<p>According to the victim\u2019s grieving mother, Kylie, Obinna; her only child had gone to the gym at the mall that day and was instructed to park on the 5th floor.<\/p>\n<p>She alleged that the parking area lacked clear safety signs or directional markings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were no signs to indicate entrance or exit. My son drove in slowly, as anyone would in a multi-level car park, looking for a space.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The CCTV footage showed him tipping over the edge on the 5th floor. After that, there was nothing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She also lamented that it took mall officials 35 minutes to extract him from the car and take him to the hospital, where he was declared dead on arrival.<\/p>\n<p>The bereaved mother dismissed the mall\u2019s claim that her son refused valet parking, stating that a friend who was driving behind Obinna confirmed they were asked to self-park by the mall\u2019s security.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the incident, the Lagos State Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, on Wednesday, July 2, shut down the mall indefinitely pending investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Tokunbo Wahab, in a statement, announced that a specialized team has been set up to determine the root cause of the parking structure failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado The Lagos State Government has sealed off Purple Mall in Lekki following the tragic death of a 28-year-old man, Obinna, who fell from the mall\u2019s multi-level parking structure. According to the victim\u2019s grieving mother, Kylie, Obinna; her only child had gone to the gym at the mall that day and was instructed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69567,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69565\/revisions\/69567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}