- The manager and staff of a hotel in Ebonyi have bee arrested by the Police
- The staff of the hotel were arrested following the death of a lady in her room on Sunday, December 17
- It was gathered that the lady had deep cuts in her chest and check when she was discovered in the hotel room
The Ebonyi police in Ebonyi are investigating the death of a yet to be identified lady in a hotel room on Afikpo Road, Abakaliki.
DSP Loveth Odaa, the Police Public Relations Officer of the Police Command in Ebonyi , told newsmen in Abakaliki on Sunday, December 17, that the victim had deep cuts on her chest and neck.
Odaa said that the manager of the hotel, the supervisor and other workers were being questioned in connection with the incident.
“The identities of both the victim and the person being accused of the killing are unknown but investigations are on-going.
“The hotel management should be blamed for negligence because the killing was not noticed instantly with the corpse discovered after some days,” she said.
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Odaa appealed to the public to provide useful information that could lead to the arrest of the culprit and promised that police would get to the root of the matter.
A source who spoke on the condition of anonymity said that the hotel staff knew about the incident when an unpleasant odour came from the room.
“When the odour became unbearable, I drew the attention of the hotel management which responded and discovered that the fair-complexioned lady had been stabbed.
“She was allegedly stabbed by her boyfriend as the hotel management contacted the police who took the staff to the station for interrogation.
“The corpse was later evacuated and it was noticed that it had deep cuts on the chest, neck and other parts.
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“The killer also took the lady’s belongings, including her phone, possibly to prevent being traced,” he said.
Mr Emmanuel Eze, the Hotel Manager, said he travelled when the incident occurred but that as soon as he was briefed, he informed the police.
“We are not linking the killing to ritual purposes because all her vital body parts were intact by the time the corpse was evacuated.
“Incidents such as this form the risk associated with operating a hotel business and we have taken it as it came,” he said.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) announced that its officials have arrested two police officers for their alleged involvement in the shipment of 1, 250 rounds of live ammunition.
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The spokesperson of the NDLEA, Jonah Achema, in a statement on Tuesday, November 27, said the live ammunition was intercepted by the agency’s FCT command during a motorized patrol at the Gwagwalada end of Abuja-Lokoja expressway.
According to the statement, the consignment was sent through a transport company from Lagos to be collected by the policemen.
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