An hotelier has been detained in Lagos following allegations of sexually molestation of schoolboys who were threatened with death if they disclose their ordeal.
NewsmakersNG gathered that the hotelier popular called CEO has been arrested by the police at Zone 2 Command Headquarters, Onikan, Lagos, after a complaint by a father who claimed that his 16-year-old son developed mental issues after he was sexually molested by the suspect at Bucknor, Isheri Oshun area of the state.
According to the complainant, the incident occurred before last Christmas when the student confided in his mother that he had a confession to make before the New Year.
The mother obliged her son that confidentiality only to raise the alarm after the boy told her that the owner of a popular hotel in the area called Empire, lured him and four of his fellow students to his hotel and made love to them through the anus after which he warned them that if they disclose it to anybody, they would die.
The shocked mother of the estranged teenager said that a few minutes after her son opened up to her, he started misbehaving by talking to himself like a mad person.
The father, a spare parts dealer at Ladipo Auto Spare Parts Market in Lagos, Edozie Christian, 44, also said that his son started behaving like a mad person after the confession.
He said, “We rushed him to a prayer house and after some days when he became a bit sober, we took him to Isheri Osun police station where he made statement and narrated his ugly encounter with the hotelier.
“Shockingly, after he disclosed the names of his schoolmates that took him to the Chief Executive Officer of the hotel simply identified as Macdon, he relapsed and started behaving like a mad person The police went to invite the students he mentioned but succeeded in getting only one of them who boldly came with a laptop and gave detailed accounts of how the hotelier has been molesting them sexually.
“He told detectives that they went to the hotel to partake in a Tik Tok programme only for the owner of the hotel, usually addressed as CEO, to lure them inside one of the rooms and promised to pay them N5000 after having sex with them through the anus. The student said from all indications, he has been doing it to many other students that he usually pay and after using them, he would clean himself and the boys’ anus with white handkerchief and threaten them never to discuss the encounter with anybody and if they did, they would die.
“After they made statements to the police at Isheri Osun division, the condition of my son worsened and I had to take him to Mirabel Center at the General Hospital, Ikeja where he was examined by doctors. The doctors later told us that there were signs of abuse in the anus but it did not affect his brain. They advised that we take him to a Psychiatric hospital for further examination stating that he might be suffering from trauma caused by the abuse.
“When we got to the Psychiatric hospital, they also examined him and advised that we should take him to another hospital meant for teenagers, which we did. After that, they gave us tablets and advised that we keep close checks on him assuring that he would be okay after some time. However, we have been giving him the medications but he is getting worse daily.
“On the part of the police, initially, they told us that all the efforts they made to invite the owner of the hotel failed, but he later sent his lawyer to talk with them.
“Another shock that befell us was that few days later, the police invited me to come that the owner of the hotel had transferred the case to Zone 2, Onikan without even reporting to their station. At this stage, they continued pressurizing me to report to their station, that they will take me to Zone 2 and all efforts I made to know the unit handling the case at the zone were rebuffed by the police.
“I then decided to personally report myself to the AIG at Zone 2 who swiftly directed his men to arrest the owner of the hotel for explanations. Unfortunately, a team of armed policemen that stormed the hotel later could not arrest him but succeeded in arresting some of his staff.”
It was gathered that while the police were in the hotel frantically looking for the owner, several calls were made to Zone 2 by some yet to be disclosed prominent individuals and top policemen from Abuja to the head of the unit investigating the case to allow sleeping dogs lie by withdrawing his men from the hotel.
According to reports, while the operation was going on at the hotel, another team of policemen from Isheri Osun Station arrived there and started pleading for reprieve for the suspect promising to hand him over to the police at Zone 2 on a given date.
The AIG Zone 2, Adegoke Fayoade reportedly got hint of the efforts to stall the arrest of the suspect, and he swiftly swung into action and gave his men a marching order to arrest and thoroughly interrogate the suspect over the allegations.
According to the police, the suspected owner of the hotel was arrested and interrogated by detectives. It was learned that when detectives brought the complainant and the suspect together, the teenager who was gesticulating and talking wildly to nobody in particular, pointed at the owner of the hotel and called his name while still behaving like a mad person.
Police sources also said that after his arrest, the suspect who denied his involvement in the allegations claimed that he earlier reported the case at Zone 2, Onikan when the police at Isheri Osun were not cooperating with him.
There were also claims that detectives discovered that he actually reported the case in one of the units at Zone 2, but when the case file was presented, it was discovered that it was doctored by an unidentified person.
NewsmakersNG learned that somebody tampered with statements made by both the complainant and another student at Isheri Osun police station. Also, the report presented by doctors at the Mirable center in Ikeja turned out to be different from what the father of the teenager claimed showing that it was also doctored.
Meanwhile, the suspect is still in detention pending when detectives will conclude investigations.
The police at Zone 2 confirmed the story stating that investigations are still ongoing.
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