A popular hotelier, Michael Ogunnusi, the owner of Allonze
Hotel on Isahwo Road, Agric, Ikorodu, Lagos State has been killed by suspected
assassins, for allegedly dating the gunmen’s leader. The assailants, who
entered the hotel on a motorcycle, pretended that they were lodgers.
The security guard who opened the gate was said to have been
tied up by the armed men. They were said to have made straight for the victim’s
room in the hotel and shot him dead, took his phone and fled from the hotel.
However, a source told Punch
the men were four in number and brought a car which was parked outside.
He said, “While one was in the car, three went in on a
motorcycle, pretending to be customers; they got separate rooms to stay.
However, no sooner than they got their keys that they went to the man’s room.
One knocked at his door as if he was one of the hotel workers. As he opened the
door, they opened gunfire on him.”
Meanwhile, a police source said the incident happened around
11pm on Wednesday, explained that the suspects first tied up the gateman.
He said, “There were four of them and they spoke Ijaw
language. They entered into the hotel on a motorcycle. They deceived the
gateman by telling him they wanted to book a room. But immediately he opened
the gate, they beat and tied him up.
“It is possible they were operating based on information
from an insider because immediately they entered, they went into the man’s room
in the hotel. He begged them not to kill him. He said he was ready to
offer them anything, but they shot him dead. They left with his phone.”
A source said the victim was killed for dating a woman that
was not his wife.
The source said, “He was dating a woman that was the wife of
the suspects’ leader. On the night that he was killed, he was with the woman. ”
The source said the woman had already been arrested by the
police.
It was learnt that policemen from the Owutu Police Division
removed the corpse and took it to a mortuary.
The victim’s wife, Mrs. Bolanle Ogunnusi, did not deny the
allegation that the victim was caught with a woman.
She said, “I am his wife and we have five children together.
The hotel is closed. I don’t know (if he was killed over a woman). The police
have not released his corpse.”
The Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, Damasus Ozoani,
confirmed the incident, adding that four suspects had been arrested.
“The case has been transferred to the State Department of
Criminal Investgation, Panti,” he added.
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