- A 26-year-old man, identified as Ebere, was found dead in a hotel room at Midwifery Junction, Okpanam, hours after checking in with a friend.
- The police have arrested the friend who accompanied him, pending an autopsy to determine the cause of death, according to PPRO SP Bright Edafe.
- A source alleged the hotel is known for drug-related activity, while the deceased’s family has declined to pursue an investigation, focusing instead on burial arrangements.
Police have arrested a friend of a 26-year-old man, identified simply as Ebere, who was found dead in a hotel room at Midwifery Junction, Okpanam, in the Delta State capital.
According to sources, Ebere had checked into the unnamed hotel around 4 p.m. on Sunday with a friend. His lifeless body was discovered by 6 a.m. the following day.
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A source familiar with the incident told PUNCH Metro on Tuesday that, “The young man, according to the CCTV footage, checked into the hotel around 4 pm with one of his friends.
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“The friend said they woke up and found Ebere dead on the ground, and started shouting, which drew the attention of the hotel management.
“That hotel is a den of drugs, as young people troop there for drugs. And the information I got was that someone had died in the hotel in the past. A lot of things are happening there. We are pleading with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency to visit the hotel.”
Meanwhile, a brother of the deceased, who chose not to be named, stated that the family had no interest in pursuing an investigation and was only focused on retrieving the body for burial.
“We are not doing any investigation. We are trying to carry the body for burial. That is all,” he said.
Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer for Delta State Command, SP Bright Edafe, disclosed that Ebere’s friend had been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation.
“The suspect will not be released until an autopsy is carried out to ascertain the cause of the death.
“The management of the hotel called the command that someone died in their facility. So, the police went there to remove the body which has been deposited at the morgue,” Edafe said.
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