There’s nothing as good as living right, it saves you all kinds of
embarrassment and unexpected shame. There has been anxiety at the Jonaith Hotel
and Suites in the Lekki/Ajah area of Lagos after a 24yrs old guy, identified as
Michael Afeso, was found dead in one of the hotel room he checked into.
Michael’s girlfriend,
who had stayed with him on Friday evening, was sighted on Saturday morning on
the CCTV camera, escaping quietly from the room…
She was said to have fled the hotel before the arrival of policemen from the Ajah division, who later took the late Michael’s corpse to a mortuary.
She was said to have fled the hotel before the arrival of policemen from the Ajah division, who later took the late Michael’s corpse to a mortuary.
According to Punch, Michael, an indigene of Akoko Edo LGa of Edo
State, had checked into a room in the hotel on Friday and had enjoyed some
bottles of beer with a friend, identified as Abass.
It was learnt that Abass left the deceased in the company with a
lady, whom the latter had sent for. (?) This statement here is kind of
confusing. Anyway, the corpse of the victim was said to have been discovered by
one of the hotel workers, who had gone to his room at checkout.
A relative of Michael, identified as Olufemi Oladejo, said the
family was notified by one of his friends. He said, “When we got there, the
management of the hotel told us they found the girl in their CCTV tip-toeing
out.
“When we challenged them on why they did not stop her since they
both checked in together, they changed the story and said the video was of
another room and that it had nothing to do with the case.
“The hotel management said one Abass, who was their customer,
reserved the room for Michael. We were told that they both took some bottles of
beer before Abass left. They said Michael was alone in his room before they saw
his corpse.”
The victim’s father, Pa Abraham, said that he was expecting his son
to send him some money for upkeep and a project, when he was told he had died.
He said, “My other children who had been aware of the incident could
not break the news to me because I was sick. Instead, they informed my friend,
who called me to his house and broke the sad news to me.
“The hotel management and the police have
been dribbling us and telling us all kinds of lies. Even our lawyer was compromised
and he has stopped picking my calls. I insisted that the matter be transferred
from Ajah because I lost confidence in the police in that division.”
However, the result of the autopsy indicated that the victim
died of heart attack and hypertension. But the late Michael’s family insisted that the case had been
tampered with and urged Police IG, Solomon Arase, to conduct an independent
investigation into the matter.
The hotel lawyer, Akran Akra, in a chat with PUNCH, denied
that the hotel covered up anything. He said, “There was no time that the hotel changed any story.
We gave the police and the deceased’s family unlimited access to our IT rooms
on several occasions. The girl and the man did not go in together. She came in
later as a visitor.
“The fact of the case is that Michael checked into the hotel
on the night of Friday, October 23, 2015. The room he checked into had earlier
been reserved for him by one of his friends, who checked in earlier the same
day.
“His friends, who were with him that night, confirmed that on
arrival at the hotel, the deceased joined them at the pool bar where they all
had drinks together before retiring to his hotel room to meet his girlfriend,
who he was expecting.
“At about 12.15pm the next day, one of the hotel’s housekeepers,
who was carrying out a routine clean-up at checkout found the lifeless body of
Michael on the bed.”
He said the hotel management immediately alerted the police. “There was no complicity on the part of the hotel. The food
that was served by the chef was not eaten by the deceased. The CCTV footage did
not indicate a foul play,” he stressed.
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