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The Niger State Police Command has
started investigations into the killing of the owner of Deploo Hotel and
Suites, Mr. Lucky Okonkwo, who was murdered in his hotel in Suleja,
Niger State.
The 59-year-old Lucky was stabbed to death on Friday by a three-man gang,
suspected to be workers at the hotel, shortly after he returned from a
trip to Kaduna.
He was said to be at the hotel for the purpose of supervision.
It was learnt that after killing the
victim, the suspects took away the Closed Circuit Television decoder of
the hotel, the victim’s phones and fled in his Peugeot 406 saloon car.
They also took away a file containing certain information about the hotel.
The security men at the hotel, who were
the prime suspects, were reported to have fled immediately the incident
happened and had since been unreachable on their telephone lines.
They were identified as Frank Anavukko, Victor Anerah and Emmanuel Adeh.
The matter was reported at the Madalla Police Division and some of the hotel workers were arrested.
Lucky, an indigene of Delta State, was
said to be the immediate past Vice-President of the Nigerian Association
of Technology Engineering, North-West zone.
According to the victim's son, Paul, “He (the victim) just returned from a trip
and around 7pm of that day, he went to his office. When his workers
didn’t see him and they discovered he was not reachable on his telephone
lines, they called my mum the following day.
“She rushed down to the hotel and met
him in a pool of blood. The workers claimed they didn’t know when it
happened. They said they only saw three people going into his office
and the same set of people driving out in his car. They said they also
saw those people with the CCTV decoder and when they queried them, they
said, ‘Oga asked us to go and repair it’.
“Aside from the CCTV and the car, those
men also left with his money and other valuables. We don’t really know
the motivation for the murder.”
Paul said the family reported the case
to the police at the Madalla division, adding that some of the workers
on duty at the time had been arrested.
He urged the police to speed up investigations and bring the perpetrators of the crime to book.
A source claims that there were signs of struggle in the victim's office. He said, “The man was a retired PHCN
worker. He was killed on Friday night. On Saturday morning, a man
cleaning the hotel saw a pool of blood coming out of his office and
raised the alarm. At the scene, there was a knife with which he was
killed. There were also signs of struggle as the office table was
broken. He had a deep knife cut in his palm, probably while he was
holding the knife from piercing into him. They drove away his grey
colour Peugeot 406 saloon car, with number plate KUJ-424 BB. They also
made away with a file containing some information about the hotel.”
It was gathered that the case had
already been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and
Intelligence Department, Minna.
A source said the fleeing hotel guards were the prime suspects.
He said, “One of them is already in Port
Harcourt, Rivers State. How can something happen on Friday and in less
than 24 hours, you have already disappeared to Port Harcourt if not that
you are culpable?”
The Police Public Relations Officer,
Niger State Police Command, Elkana Bala, said the police were closing in
on the suspects, adding that information available to the police showed
Lucky was killed by his workers.
He said, “He was suspected to have been
murdered by his workers; he was not killed by outsiders. After the
incident, those male workers ran away with his Peugeot 406. We are
trailing them. The SCIID, Homicide section, has commenced full
investigations into the matter.”
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