Seven staff of a popular Guest House ( name withheld) located at Clement Ebri Drive, State Housing Estate, Calabar have been arrested following the discovery of the lifeless body of a lady in one of its rooms.
The hotel staff who were on duty when the incident happened were arrested to aid investigation and also provide the contact of the guest who lodged their facility.
NigeriaCrime.com gathered that the corpse of a yet-to-be-identified middle-aged lady was recovered by the Police in one of the hotel rooms Guest House located at Clement Ebri Drive, State Housing Estate, Calabar.
The deceased, according to one of the hotel staff who spoke on condition of anonymity, “walked into the hotel with a man who is now at large suggesting he was at the scene during the time of her death.
Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer SP Irene Ugbo said the identity of the deceased was yet to be unravelled adding we are aware of the incident and the story is true. A man and a woman were lodged in a hotel and the woman was later found dead. We are investigating the matter.
“From our preliminary findings showed that the partner to the deceased told the hotel staff that he wanted to go and use the ATM very close to the Muritala Mohammed Highway but never came back.
The staff of the hotel on duty became suspicious when they waited for over three hours and the man never returned, they decided to check the room, that was when they discovered that the lady was dead and they raised the alarm.
“We had to arrest seven staff of the hotel who were on duty when the guests came into their facility. We arrested them because we need them to produce the contact of their guest in a bid to get to the root of the matter.
“This should be a note of warning to hoteliers in the state to sit up as it concerns data collection and record keeping, security is everyone’s business.
“We are already on the trail of the partner who absconded, I can assure the public that he would be apprehended as soon as possible,” she added.