Etashol Hotel and Suites owner, Mrs. Abimbola Olusola has been killed by her workers.

She was killed alongside her manager, Tunji Omikunle inside the hotel located on Budland Street, Ojodu Berger, Lagos State. She was said to have been drugged, tied up and strangled by her workers who colluded with a gang.

Olusola, who had lived in London, the United Kingdom, for 35 years, was said to have returned to Nigeria recently and opened the hotel for business in March 2018.

We gathered that the 56-year-old had issues with some of the workers, who allegedly defrauded the hotel of millions of naira. Two of the workers were reportedly sacked after the police were invited to look into the matter.

The workers and their gangs deactivated the Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras in the hotel before they killed her and the manager.

Our correspondent learnt that Tunji was strangled, after which the suspects proceeded to Olusola’s room and strangled her too.

Relatives of the deceased told our correspondent that the suspects fled the hotel, as family members met the lifeless bodies of the victims in the hotel. The case has been reported at the Ojodu Abiodun Police Station.

A family member disclosed that Olusola was planning to lease out the hotel and return to London when tragedy struck…

 “The incident happened on Thursday night cum Friday morning. I was called that my sister had been murdered by the boys working for her in the hotel.”

“From what I learnt, the manager had dragged one of them, called Light, to a police station for involvement in fraud in the hotel. There were also cases of stealing involving these guys. Two of them were sacked.”

“On Thursday night, the men tied Tunji’s hands and feet and strangled him. I think it was after they had killed Tunji that they got access to the card that opens my sister’s room. They went to her bed, tied her up and strangled her.”

The family member added that the woman’s 12-year-old son, who was to go to school on Friday morning, was the first to discover the mother’s corpse…

“Around 7am when the school bus came to pick him, a vigilante member, who had tried unsuccessfully to reach the deceased businesswoman on the telephone, insisted on knowing her whereabouts from the son. But the boy found her dead on the bed in her room.”

“The child sleeps in a room in the hotel. Tunji used to wake him up and prepare him for school. But when the boy did not see the manager that morning and his school bus had arrived, he quickly got himself ready and ran out.”

“However, a vigilante member, who had suspected that something was amiss after noticing some of the workers’ movements the previous night, waited at the hotel’s gate. The man had called both Tunji and the woman on their phones without getting any response.”

“When the boy was hurrying to school that morning, the man said he should go and call the manager. The boy went inside and returned, saying he could not find the manager. He was hurrying to get into the school bus when the man said he should go and call his mother. He went to her room and raised the alarm after discovering her corpse.”