Girlfriend Escapes As Rich Lover Dies In Hotel Room In Lekki, Lagos

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.
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.”
The matter has been transferred to
the State Department of Criminal
Investigation, Yaba.
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.

Serves him right