They asked who bears Adedeji Adesola Tobiloba and a female receptionist signified by raising her finger.

“She said Adegoke came to the hotel on Friday to lodge but he only transferred N37,000 to her account and left hurriedly without returning to the hotel. She said she never reported the matter to the hotel management but rather she shared the money with the manager of the company.He (manager) denied the allegation..

“When she got to the station, she confessed that he (Adegoke) lodged in room 305. Police did not tell us anything before they arrested five people including an alfa who claimed he travelled to Ejigbo.

“On Monday, 15th, 2021, one of the hotel staff led the police and four family members to where Adegoke was buried in Ile-Ife. When the police exhumed the body, we discovered that they packed his corpse inside a carton wrapped with a duvet with the name of the hotel. The neck of Adegoke was slit.

“The police proceeded to arrest the chairman of the hotel, Dr. Rahmon Adedoyin without disclosing the reason for doing so to us.”

Adedoyin and other suspects are still being interrogated by the police.

Our own story,Adedoyin’s lawyer

Contacted yesterday,Adedoyin’s lawyer of 15 years ,Barrister Williams Abiodun,said there is nothing in the account record of the hotel showing that Adegoke paid to lodge there.

He said the police first arrested one Adesola,the hotel’s receptionist ,and following her statement, the police “notified me that they needed to question other staff and I took five of them to the police but they were detained.

“When they interrogated Adesola, she disclosed that the man (Adegoke) transferred the money into her personal account and (the money) was stolen without recoding it in the hotel’s account. “She shared the money with another staff. That was why the hotel initially denied that Adegoke lodged in the hotel.

“Last week Saturday, the Investigating Police Officer (IPO) told me that all the arrested staff had confessed that Adegoke actually slept in the hotel but died in his sleep naturally.

“The staff had shared the money that was paid by the guest and did not input it in the record. “They knew there was a problem, they took the body in the dead of the night and dumped it somewhere and returned to the hotel as if nothing happened.

“Chief (Adedoyin) questioned them repeatedly but they all denied it until police forced them to talk.

“They did not bury the body, they took the police to where the body was dumped. Where they dumped the body was on farmland on the Ife/Osogbo road. The farmers hinted the police.

“Only two staff were involved in dumping the corpse of Adegoke: the receptionist and one Kosim who is the plumber of the hotel. Kosim is this Tabligh Muslim, not a spiritualist.”

He said the body of the victim was recovered in the presence of the Osun Police Commissioner, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) and some other people.

He added: “Adegoke’s body was intact when it was recovered. He died a natural death because he was resting his head on his palm. He spread his legs tiredly. There was no single mark of violence on his body. The only offence these people committed was wrongful interference and dumping of the dead body.”
He denied suggestions in some quarters that Adedoyin attempted to bribe the family of the deceased.

“Adedoyin never sent me to any of the family members of the deceased to bribe them,” Abiodun said.

“I have never seen any member of the victim’s family. Chief was not around when the incident happened. I don’t know when his corpse was discovered in the hotel room, but it seems he died on Friday night or Saturday.

“The IPO told me that the guy was feeling sick on the 5th of November, that was the reason why the wife worried and called her husband on 6th repeatedly without anybody picking. The remains were probably discovered on Sunday by one of the workers.”

He added that those who were arrested mentioned of the name Chief Adedoyin as the owner of the hotel and he was invited and has been detained since Monday.

“I went with Chief Adedoyin on Monday to the Police Command, Osogbo where he gave his statement. He voluntarily submitted himself. He was never in any way indicted by the six arrested suspects.”

He said the hotel manager , Aderogba Adeniyi was arrested alongside other suspects.

He also denied that the son of the hotel owner was arrested .

He asked the police to “ do a discrete job and anybody found wanting should be probably prosecuted, no matter how highly placed the person is.”

He said: “ We intentionally don’t want to free the suspects legally from police detention because we want the police to conduct their investigation very well without interference and let the whole world know that Adegoke died a natural death. The staff only interfered with the corpse.”

The hotel is currently under lock and key while investigation into the circumstances surrounding Adegoke’s death continues.

Another source close to Adedoyin believe there is a deliberate attempt to rubbish him.

The source denied suggestions that Adegoke was killed for rituals and said “the initial denial of the hotel management as to whether Adegoke lodged with them was because there was no record of any payment by him in the Hotel’s account, but it was later that it was detected that he made payment into the personal account of the receptionist which normally is wrong.”

The source added: “the late Adegoke left the hotel like many other customers after finding out that neither light nor water was available, and the CCTV cameras were out of order as a result of renovation work being carried out at the hotel.

“The hotel has operated for less than two years and had never recorded any death as the public was led to believe by the deceased brother

“The lady receptionist who was recently employed by the hotel is on a salary of twenty-five thousand naira (N25,000) and not two hundred thousand naira (N200,000) as being spread in some media.

“The person called Alfa which could be misinterpreted as an Islamic cleric and possibly a spiritualist or ritualist is actually a plumber and maintenance manager in the hotel and is neither a cleric nor a ritualist.

“ Dr. Adedoyin is not personally involved in the day-to-day running of the hotel as he has other more important businesses which include five tertiary institutions within and outside Nigeria, security outfit, publishing and hospitality business.”

Adedoyin: My hands are clean

The hotel owner,Dr.Rahman Adedoyin,in an audio message from detention yesterday said his hands are clean in the death of Adegoke.

Speaking in Yoruba,65 year old Adedoyin said he has been wealthy since he was 26 years after starting as a home lesson teacher.

He said he never left Ife before God “blessed me”.

He said he has never been involved in money rituals and pleaded with the public to conduct their investigation into the matter.

He said he did not know about the death of Adegoke in his hotel until the police started searching for him.

Police source: Why Adegoke paid into hotel staff’s account

A highly placed police source told The Nation that the hotel receptionist had told Adegoke that the facility had run out of diesel to power its generator.

“She asked Adegoke to pay into her personal account so that she could use part of the money to procure fuel which he (Adegoke) agreed to,” the source said.
His killers must be made to feel our pains – Adegokes

The deceased turned 37 only last August,according to his elder brother, Olugbade Adegoke.

“He was the breadwinner of the whole family. He was more educated than all of us in the family,” he said in an emotion –laden vice.

“He was the third born of our parents.

“He had been doing the Master’s programme when he was in Ondo before he was transferred to Abuja. He left Ondo around May 2021 for Abuja and moved his family with him in September 2021.

“When we visited the hotel, we discovered that there were bloodstains in the room where he slept and they had already changed the mattress and curtains of the room because it was different from all others of its category. I took the pictures.

“We demand that the police should press murder charges those involved in the death of my younger brother.

“The deceased had three children. The firstborn are seven-year-old twins and another two-year-old baby. I want the perpetrators to feel our pains.

“My brother had the prospect of becoming the managing director of the company he was working for. He had two mobile policemen securing him and an official car in Abuja but because he was coming down to Ile-Ife for an exam he felt it was needless to travel with them. He was killed during his last exam in the school.”

Family to Police: All culprits must be brought to book

Counsel to the bereaved family,Kayode Ajulo,in a statement yesterday commended the police for a job well done so far,but said all the culprits in the matter must be brought to book in the overriding interest of justice.

“It is worrisome and sad that Mr. Timothy Oludare can be cut down in his prime for motives best known to his killers which of course, must be extracted and investigated by the Police without delay. It portends serious danger that a place meant to serve the temporary accommodation needs of Nigerians and non-Nigerians alike could in actual fact be a place where cold-blooded murders are orchestrated and carried out in the most desperate and daring manner. Again, we note the temerity and the audacity in which the murder of the late Timothy Oludare was carried out as contained in the preliminary findings made by the Osun State Police Command. According to the findings, our Client’s son was strangled to death in his hotel room, his body was subsequently mutilated and wrapped in a blood-soaked blanket/bedsheet belonging to the hotel and finally buried in a shallow grave near the hotel.

“The law is clear that an offender(s) who causes the death of a person is guilty of murder under 316 of the Criminal Code Laws Cap 34, Laws of Osun State and same is punishable by death under Section 319 of the same law and it is our legally considered view that the confessional statements as obtained from some of the suspects are cogent enough to establish the varying degrees of guilt of all the suspects.

“As things stand, the hotel and its vicinity are a crime scene and should be treated as such, nothing must be on the way of a thorough and wider investigation of this highly reprehensible murder because nobody irrespective of their status or influence is bigger than the extant laws of the land.

“We therefore urge utmost professionalism by the Police in this matter; no stone must be left unturned to get to the root of this matter. On our part, we are ready to partner with the Police to ensure that justice is not only done but seen to be done. While we trust that this matter will reach its expected legal conclusion, we want to reiterate that we will not hesitate for a second to do everything within legally permissible limits to fight anyone who attempts to frustrate the expected end of justice.

“As it is historically believed that Ile-Ife is the cradle of the human race, it is important that the ancient city and by extension, other parts of the nation must not be allowed to become safe havens for murderers and other criminals alike. It shreds our collective humanity into pieces when the blood of any innocent Nigerian can be spilled without consequences.”

His exhumed body is intact— Police

However, the Police Public Relations Officer of the Osun State Police Command, SP Yemisi Opalola said body of the victim which was exhumed by the police in the presence of the family members remains intact.

“No part of the body was missing when it was exhumed,” Opalola said.

He added: “investigation by the police indicates that Adegoke slept inside Hilton Hotel and Resort, Ile-Ife, and he was traced to the hotel.

“In the course of the investigation, we arrested six workers connected to the issue. Further investigation led to the arrest of the owner of the Hotel. Dr Rahman Adedoyin. He is still in our custody. The corpse has been exhumed and deposited at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital morgue.

“The relations were present when the corpse was exhumed. A pathologist and the Commissioner of Police were also present . No part of the body was missing when it was exhumed. I plead with Nigerians not to stir up controversy. Allow the police to conduct a diligent investigation to unravel the mystery behind the death of Adegoke.”

Okay...

This version still sounds like the earlier spin-version that graced the front page a few days ago but this time with better English and grammar.

How someone could die in his sleep and end up with a slit throat still needs to be explained.

Was he an animal that died and needed to be slit and drained off its blood before consuming as per some religious ethos?

I hope and pray that this case isn't swept under the rug due to the personalities involved.

There is definitely more to this case than most of the spin-offs and image laundering making the rounds as "true" updates.

As is customary in most cases as this, the poor workers will whether culpable or not will be the ones to go in for this at this rate.

We are watching...

Lies

This case needs thorough investigation.

They should investigate this very well o

muheeb01:
They should investigate this very well o

The stories don't even add up in any way.

The heart of men is deep they just wasted him like a fowl.

Another brown envelop journalist. I'm sure if the deceased is your brother you wont come up with this trash.
Let me ask you some questions:

According to your own story, he made transfer to the receptionist, they shared the money and the man died in his sleep. Why didn't they return back the shared money to the receptionist and report to the police immediately they noticed he's dead?

When and how did they know he died in is sleep for them to go and dump (buried is body)?

At what period of that day was his body dump, Night or morning?

If you can answer these questions genuinely, you will find your answers.
Stop being part of evil because one day you or your loved ones will be a victim.

This is horrible!!!

The stories don’t just add up.....

Something is definitely “fishy”....

If they actually shared the transfer he made to the receptionist, then, why didn’t they just place the money back? It would’ve been easier for them to put back the money and then call the police about the death of someone in their hotel..... BUT NO! They couldn’t cos a deadly crime was definitely committed!

More investigations required!

Chaii!

This is so painful!

May his soul Rest In Peace.....

daddytime:
Okay...

This version still sounds like the earlier spin-version that graced the front page a few days ago but this time with better English and grammar.

How someone could die in his sleep and end up with a slit throat still needs to be explained.

Was he an animal that died and needed to be slit and drained off its blood before consuming as per some religious ethos?

I hope and pray that this case isn't swept under the rug due to the personalities involved.

There is definitely more to this case than most of the spin-offs and image laundering making the rounds as "true" updates.

As is customary in most cases as this, the poor workers will whether culpable or not will be the ones to go in for this at this rate.

We are watching...

How do you know his throat was slit?
You are a Nigerian and should understand how "news" item are generated in these kind of cases.
So far, there have been no official statement on the state of his body only speculations.

As to the staff arrested, none of those who shared money are innocent.
Stealing hotel booking money is a crime in itself.

ivolt:


How do you know his throat was slit?
You are a Nigerian and should understand how "news" item are generated in these kind of cases.
So far, there have been no official statement on the state of his body only speculations.

As to the staff arrested, none of those who shared money are innocent.
Stealing hotel booking money is a crime in itself.

Exactly the same way you knew he is still alive.

We are both following the news/updates.

daddytime:


Exactly the same way you knew he is still alive.

We are both following the news/updates.

I never claimed he was still alive, if he was, there will be no case in the first place.
My point is that the so-called updates are filled with contradictory speculations
that cannot be used to make any useful call.

ivolt:

I never claimed he was still alive, if he was, there will be no case in the first place.
My point is that the so-called updates are filled with contradictory speculations
that cannot be used to make any useful call.

I was just being sarcastic in my response to you.

Good morning, and a happy Sunday.

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