Police arrest South African businessman who ‘drugged woman in Lagos hotel’
Category: Lagos News
A young woman in Lagos is receiving medical treatment after she was
found close to death in a hotel in the FESTAC town area of the state.
22-year-old Awe Rebecca is said to have been drugged by a South African businessman whom she was lodged with.
The victim was said to have been in a coma when she was rescued and she was also bleeding from her private part.
Nigerian Eye reports:
It was gathered that the victim, , a resident of 21,
Gani Adams Street, Shoba Town, came into the hotel about 3pm to meet a
guest who was already lodged in a room.
The hotel’s manager, Andrew Iyere, said after about two hours in
the room, the guest came down and stood by the stair-case, inviting a
porter into his room.
He said: “The porter said the man looked troubled. When he got
there, he noticed a lady on the floor with blood coming out of her
private part. The porter came to call me. When I got there, I saw the
lady’s lifeless body with blood coming from her private part. I was
scared. The guest had dragged her back to the bed. The guest was
behaving like an insane person. I called security guards who came and
locked him up in the room. There was a bottle of Vodka and Alomo bitters
in the room. Those items were not purchased from the hotel.
“Immediately, I called my uncle who owns the hotel. He asked me
to call the police and I did. When the police came and opened the room,
the guest saw them and started threatening everybody. He said he was
going to deal with the hotel and that he was going to make sure the
policemen lose their job. He described himself as a rich South
African-based businessman. But the police arrested him.”
Iyere said minutes after the police took the suspect away, he was
assisted by some people who were around watching the English
Premiership football games to take the victim to the City of David
Hospitals Limited on 721 Road, where she is being treated.
A doctor, Austeen Akaehomen, said: “She is not dead, but deeply
unconscious. The blood was coming out from her womb, may be due to an
infection or a recent abortion. There is no tear of any kind. The good
thing is that she is responding to a painful stimulus. We have conducted
laboratory analysis and discovered no injury in her private part. She
was drugged but not raped. The police have also visited the patient and
confirmed that the suspect is in their custody.”
Investigations revealed that the victim also work in Dublina Hotel at 4th Avenue in FESTAC.
A police source hinted that the suspect usually meets the victim in the hotel whenever he is in town.
At the FESTAC Police Station where the suspect is being detained, a
senior police officer confirmed he was brought in around 7.30pm last
Saturday.
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