Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a Lagos-based hotelier for allegedly sexually assaulting a 16-year-old secondary school student and four others in his hotel.
Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone-2 Command, Lagos, AIG Adegoke Fayoade said police took the man into custody after the boy confessed to his mother that the hotel owner molested him at his hotel located at Bucknor in the Isheri Oshun area of the state.
Fayoade said the hotelier has been detained for the alleged sexual assault on male students in his hotel after the parents of the boy reported the case to the police at Zone 2.
He said the suspect will remain in detention pending conclusion of investigations.
The police chief said, ”The boy told his parents that the suspect allegedly lured him and four other students to his hotel and sodomised them.
”The boy’s father (name withheld) said: ‘we rushed him to a prayer house and after some days when he became a little bit sober, we took him to Isheri-Oshun 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 hotelier, he relapsed and started behaving like a mad person.
“The police succeeded in getting only one of the students who brought a laptop and gave detailed accounts of how the hotelier has been molesting them sexually.”
