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| The Hotel. |
A
man, identified simply as Sunday, has died in a Lagos hotel on
Ishawo Road, in
the Ikorodu area of Lagos State.
PUNCH
Metro learnt that the management of the
Western Lodge Hotel discovered his corpse around 1am in his room.
All
the contacts on his mobile phone were said to have been deleted, making it
difficult for his relations to be contacted.
Our
correspondent was told that the case was reported at the Owutu Police Division,
while his corpse had been deposited in the Ikorodu General Hospital Mortuary.
When
our correspondent visited the area on Monday, he observed that the hotel
carried on with its business as usual.
Some
of the ladies were seen outside smoking, while a few others attended to
customers at the bar.
A
source told our correspondent that the deceased was poisoned.
He
said, “He checked in around that 10am. It was around 1am that his corpse was
discovered. The man was poisoned. The owner of the hotel reported at Owutu that
they found his corpse in his room.
“But
when the police checked the man’s phone, they discovered that all the contacts
and his phone calls had been deleted. There was nothing with which to identify
him. Nobody knows his address and family.”
A
worker in another hotel in the area, however, said the victim might have killed
himself.
He
said since the incident happened, the hotel had been running its business at
night.
He
said, “I was told that somebody died there, but I don’t know the details except
that when he got inside the room, he decided to take his own life. The hotel
has continued to run its business as usual. In fact, not many people are aware
of it.”
The
workers at the hotel declined comment, while others said there was no such
incident.
When
PUNCH Metro asked to speak with the manager of the hotel, he was said to
be unavailable.
However,
a man, who spoke for the management of the hotel, said the victim died on the
road and not inside the hotel.
He
said, “You press people have come with your wahala, and you want to complicate
matters for me. I don’t want to talk to you about the incident.
“But
if I will say anything, I will only say it didn’t happen here. The man stepped
out of this hotel and was about crossing the road when he was hit by a car. One
of his family members, a woman, has even been here. She even thanked me for my
sacrifice because I had to give some money so they could take his corpse to
Kaduna.”
The
immediate past Police Public Relations Officer, Patricia Amadin, had confirmed
to our correspondent on Monday that the deceased died in the hotel.
She
said the case was still under investigation to ascertain the true cause of
death.
“But
we are looking at a case of sudden and unnatural death,” she added.
Source: Punch Newspaper
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