How Timothy Adegoke’s lifeless body was discovered inside his hotel room by receptionist
26 May 2022 |
3:48 am
One of the receptionists at Hilton Hotel, Ile-Ife, Osun State, where Timothy Adegoke, a postgraduate student of the Obafemi Awolowo University was allegedly murdered, Miss Magdalene Chiefuna...
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One of the receptionists at Hilton Hotel, Ile-Ife, Osun State, where Timothy Adegoke, a postgraduate student of the Obafemi Awolowo University was allegedly murdered, Miss Magdalene Chiefuna, yesterday, told the Osun State High Court, Osogbo , how the lifeless body of Adegoke was discovered inside his hotel room.
Chiefuna, an undergraduate of OAU, who was working as a receptionist at the hotel, to support herself financially, told the court that the room 30 which Adegoke lodged was locked when she took over duty on November 6, 2021. She said the door to the room was knocked several times when Adegoke wasn’t seen, but there was no response.
She explained that she had to use a spare key to open Adegoke’s room before she discovered his body lying on the floor and wrapped in a duvet.
She added that the deceased’s phone was ringing repeatedly and that he wasn’t conscious to discover that his phone was ringing.
Chiefuna, who is one of the seven defendants standing trial over allegations of murder, conspiracy, oath taking and tampering with dead body among others leveled against them by the Federal Government of Nigeria, disclosed that after Adegoke’s body was discovered in the room, the hotel manager, Mr Adeniyi Aderogba (third defendant), later went into the room, raised the deceased’s hand and told her he was dead.
While being led in evidence by her counsel, Kayode Adegoke, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chiefuna explained to the court that she didn’t know anything about the allegation of murder leveled against her, adding that after the body was discovered, Roheem Adedoyin, a son to Dr Raymond Adedoyin, the owner of the hotel, summoned her and other hotel workers on duty and conducted an oath of confidentiality on them.
According to her, Roheem asked them to swear with the Holy Bible that no one would divulge that a dead body was found in the hotel room. She said the oath was conducted, according to Roheem, to save the name and image of the hotel.
She also added that Adedoyin and his son, said to be at large, asked her to delete the photographs of the record book that she had taken during her duty on that day from her phone. The defendant said she obliged them because they were her employers.
The trial judge and Chief Judge of the state, Ojo, adjourned the matter till today (Thursday) for continuation of Chiefuna’s cross examination
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