The
police in Lagos State have launched a manhunt for a man suspected to have
murdered his lover at a hotel on Prince Adeyemi Street, Ikotun, Lagos.
It was
learnt that the suspect, whose name had yet to be ascertained, had lodged in a
room in the hotel – Taola Hotel – with his girlfriend around 9.30pm on Friday.
He was
said to have paid for one hour which was supposed to elapse around 10.30pm.
Workers
of the facility, however, became worried when it was 12am and the guests did
not check out of the hotel.
The
manager of the hotel, identified only as Ahmadu, was said to have gone to check
the room only to discover that the woman was dead, while the suspect had fled.
Ahmadu reported
the case at the Ikotun Police Division, while the remains of the victim were
deposited in a morgue.
A
resident of the area, Jibola Adesina, said no one could explain how the suspect
escaped from the hotel.
He said,
“The police came to remove the corpse. No one can say how the man managed to
escape from the hotel because it has only one entrance.”
Another
resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the man had said he wanted
to buy something outside the hotel and fled afterwards, adding that the
management suspected something was wrong when he did not return.
“I
learnt from one of the workers in the hotel that the man came out of the room
around 10pm. He said he wanted to buy something outside. He left, but did not
return. It was when they waited in vain for his lover to step out that they
decided to go into the room. She was found dead,” he said.
A worker
of the hotel, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told our correspondent
during a visit to the area on Sunday that the incident “shook everyone”.
He said
the lovers had come to have “a nice time”, adding that their details were not
collected because they did not have the intention of passing the night.
He said,
“It was unfortunate. They just came to spend a short time together. That was
why their details were not taken. The case was reported to the police.”
The
Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, said the police were
investigating the incident.
Meanwhile,
the Lagos State Police Command has begun investigations into the sudden death
of a hotel worker, identified as Ifunanya Eke.
Our
correspondent gathered that Eke was found dead in a room last Tuesday at the
Top Suite Hotel and Kitchen on Tunde Odeyemi Street, Ikotun.
The
hotel management was said to have reported the case at the Ikotun Police
Division.
A police
source said only an autopsy would determine the true cause of her death.
He said,
“We were called to the incident by the management of the hotel. They said the
woman had been working with them for some time and she retired into her room
because she was on night duty. By morning, they discovered that she didn’t come
out of the room and when the door was opened, they saw that she was dead.”
The
PPRO, Badmos, said policemen from the Ikotun division examined and photographed
the scene, adding that there were no violent marks on the corpse.
She
said, “It is a case of sudden and unnatural death. The woman, Ifunanya Eke, was
a worker with Top Suit Hotel and Kitchen. She was allegedly found dead in a
room at the hotel where she slept that night.
“A team
of police detectives attached to the Ikotun division visited, examined and
photographed the scene. There was no trace of violence on her body.”
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