Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - The manager of Century Home Hotel in Owhelogbo community, Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State, Iboirode, has confessed to the brutal m8rder of a 22-year-old POS operator, Onoriode Bethel.
Iboirode, the security guard, and two other staff members
were arrested in March 2025 for the m8rder of a guest, Pastor Sunday Ogofotha.
Bethel was declared missing by her family on Friday, 13th
December, 2024.
The suspect's wife had earlier confessed that her husband
k!lled Bethel because she accused him of using a fake alert to withdraw N10,000
from her account. Bethel was said to have recovered her money, but the suspect
vowed to k!ll her in retaliation for ‘ruining his reputation.
“My husband called her into the hotel; she is a friend of
his. That day, he called her on the phone and took her into a room. It was
around 7 pm one evening. I don’t know how he k!lled her because I was in our
room. It was when he came out around midnight that he told me he had k!lled
her,” the wife said.
The spokesperson of the Delta State Police Command, SP
Bright Edafe, who confirmed the development in a statement on Tuesday, May 13,
2025, said the suspect m8rdered Bethel and buried her body on the hotel
premises.
According to Edafe, the suspect demanded ransom from
Bethel's father and used her POS machine to collect the money after getting the
password from her. He then k!lled her.
He added that her remains have been recovered.
“If
we remember the Owhelogbo hotel murder case, where a POS of a missing girl was
recovered from the manager of the hotel. On a very sad note, he has confessed
that he murdered the girl who owns the POS. She only went to ask the hotel
manager for her money, and he murdered her because, according to him, she
spoiled his reputation. He killed her and used her phone to call her father,
demanding ransom. He even used her POS to collect the money, extracted the
password from the girl before killing her. Her remains have been recovered,”
the PPRO stated.
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