A married man identified simply as Fuad has been arrested for allegedly ra-ping a receptionist in a toilet in the Mutab Hotel and Suites on Abeokuta Street, in the Ebute Metta area of Lagos State.
Fuad who lodged in the hotel with his girlfriend, was said to have accosted the 19 year old and r-aped her in a public toilet after he had requested for a towel.
Narrating her experience, the receptionist said;
“The incident happened between 12 midnight and 1am on Saturday when everybody was asleep.
“I was also asleep until one of our customers woke me up and said that he needed a towel. I was the one who attended to him (Fuad) when he came with his girlfriend to lodge in our hotel. He paid N5,000 for the room. He must have seen me when I went to pick the towel as he left his girlfriend inside the room, blocked me inside the toilet and r-aped me there.
“He wore only his underpants when he blocked me inside the toilet. I saw a bottle with him and he said if I refused to have se-x with him, he would use the bottle to kill me. He r-aped me inside the toilet and after he was done, he left me there.
“I reported the incident to my manager, Mr Ali, who raised the alarm in the morning. Mr Ali and my colleagues went to Fuad’s room, apprehended him and it was at that point that his girlfriend knew what he did. My manager and colleagues saw the bottle Fuad used to threaten me inside the toilet.”
According to the hotel owner, Mutairu Oke;
“Immediately I was informed in the morning, I instructed my workers to apprehend him. I rushed down to the hotel and took him to the Denton Police Station. Fuad is currently detained there.
“We have taken our receptionist to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital in Ikeja, where it was confirmed that she was r-aped. They gave her some medications and told her to return to the hospital on Monday for further tests.”
The state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has directed the gender unit of the command to take over the case for further investigation.
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