A Nigerian man has come out to cry for justice after his 16-year-old secondary school student in Lagos ‘ran mad’ after confessing that he was sexually molested by a popular Lagos hotelier at Bucknor, Isheri Oshun area of the state.
Vanguard reports that the distraught father, Edozie Christian, a spare parts dealer at Ladipo market in Lagos, said the incident started last Christmas when their son confided in his mother that he had a confession to make before the New Year.
The mother obliged their son with confidentiality only to raise alarm after the boy told her that the owner of a popular hotel in the area lured him and four of his fellow students to his hotel and sodomised them and warned them that if they disclosed it to anybody, they would d!e.
“My son started behaving like a mad person after the confession. 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 a statement and narrated his ugly encounter with the hotelier.
Shockingly, after he disclosed the names of his fellow students that took him to meet the Chief Executive Officer of the hotel, 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 sodomised them.
He told detectives that they went to the hotel to partake in a TikTok 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 N5,000 after sodomising them.
The student said from all indications, he has been doing it to many other students who he usually pays and after using them, he will clean himself with a white handkerchief and threaten them never to discuss the encounter with anybody and if they do, they will d!e.
After they made statements to the police at Isheri Osun station, the condition of my son worsened and I had to take him to Mirabel Centre at the General Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos, where he was examined by doctors.
The doctors later told us that there were signs of sodomisation but it did not affect his brain. They advised that we take him to a Psychiatric hospital for further examination, stating that he may be suffering from trauma from 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 a few days later, the police invited me that the owner of the hotel had transferred the case to Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos, without even reporting to their station. At this stage, they continued pressurizing me to report to their station, that they would 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 crack and armed policemen that stormed the hotel later could not arrest him but succeeded in arresting some of his staff.”
According to police sources, the suspected owner of the hotel was arrested and interrogated by detectives. Meanwhile, the suspect is still in detention pending when detectives will conclude investigations.
The Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 2, Adegoke Fayoade confirmed the incident, stating that the investigation was still ongoing.
