Owner of Etashol Hotel and Suites, located on Budland Street in the Ojodu Berger area of Lagos State, Mrs Abimbola Olusola, has been allegedly killed by some persons employed to work at the hospitality facility.
The London returnee-owner was reported to have been murdered alongside the Manager of the hotel, one Tunji Omikunle.
Those fingered in the alleged act reportedly drugged, tied up and strangled the deceased because they (workers) were punished for defrauding the company of millions of Naira.
It was said that Mrs Olusola only started Etashol Hotel and Suites in March 2018, but had been having issues with the way it was managed.
According to report, some of the workers who defrauded the hotel were sacked, after the police were invited to look into the matter.
In an alleged revenge move, the gang said to have consisted some of the sacked workers and some still in the employment of the hotel, stormed the hotel, deactivated the Closed Circuit Television cameras on the premises, dragged the manager into a toilet, where his hands and feet were tied.
It was claimed that after Tunji was strangled, the gang proceeded to Mrs Olusola’s room and strangled the lady who stayed in the UK for 35 years before returning to Nigeria. Relatives of the victims who found their bodies at the hotel, reported the incident at Ojodu Abiodun Police Station.
A relative who pleaded anonymity, informed Punch that the woman was planning to lease out the hotel and return to London when tragedy struck.
“The incident happened on Thursday night cum Friday morning. I was called that my sister had been murdered by the boys working for her in the hotel.
“From what I learnt, the manager had dragged one of them, called Light, to a police station for involvement in fraud in the hotel. There were also cases of stealing involving these guys. Two of them were sacked.
“On Thursday night, the men tied Tunji’s hands and feet and strangled him. I think it was after they had killed Tunji that they got access to the card that opens my sister’s room. They went to her bed, tied her up and strangled her.”
