By Felix Mordi
In the course of the argument, the female lodger took side with the accused person on the basis that they live on the same street, an interference that infuriated the deceased to the point of giving the lady a fist blow in the mouth
The law of karma has taken its due course on a 30-year-old man who bolted with his employer’s money and squandered it in a hotel, where he met his untimely death in the hands of a fellow female lodger.
The deceased, Mohammed Ahmed, police said, was stabbed in the neck with a broken bottle by the female lodger, 32-year-old fashion designer, Omowumi Oyapitan.
According to a press release issued by the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the deceased, Mohammed Ahmed, had betrayed his employers, Hayorlak Hotel in Atan-Otta, where he worked as a bartender.
He was said to have made away with the sum of N600,000, being sales of drinks he sold during the last Christmas, and went into hiding in Splendour Guest Inn, off Idiroko Road, Otta.
The late Mohammed allegedly absconded from his duty post and checked into Splendour Guest Inn, off Idiroko Road in Ogun, where he launched a spending spree.
On arrival at the Guest Inn on Monday, December 27, 2021, he was said to had invited, lodged and treated some of his friends to nice times, not with any inkling that he was indirectly celebrating his demise.
At a point, he fell out with one of the said friends, who he accused of stealing his money, a development that led to a hot exchange of words.
In the course of the argument, the female lodger, took side with the accused person on the basis that they live on the same street, an interference that infuriated the deceased to the point of giving the lady a fist blow in the mouth.
The deceased, it was gathered, did not stop at that; he went for a bottle and broke it. Unfortunately for him, the wounded lady, to register her grievance and fight back, picked part of the broken bottle and stabbed Mohammed in the neck.
Consequently, the hotel owner, Stephen Udoh, made a distress call to the police at Onipanu Division in Otta, following which the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), CSP Bamidele Job, raced to the hotel with his men but met him by the fence of Fowobi Filling Station on Idiroko Road in a pool of blood, having strayed out of the hotel, suggesting that he was not immediately attended to my the hotel management.
According to the PPRO, the victim was rushed to the State Hospital, Otta, where he was certified dead, adding that the suspect has been arrested and ordered to be transferred to the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) of the state police command by the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole.
In pursuit of a thorough investigation of the incident by the State Police Command, the suspect was taken to the scene of the crime in Otta yesterday afternoon, Saturday 1, January 2022 where necessary records were said to have been carefully taken by the investigation officers.
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