The murder of a female Point of Sale (PoS) operator, whose identity is unknown, has been confessed to by Godwin Iboirode, a hotel manager in the Otowe area of Delta State, according to Punch Newspaper....CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING.>>
A confession given during questioning established that a quarrel over N10,000 was the root cause of the conflict between Iboirode and Bethel. He was suspected of defrauding the victim, the hotel manager said, after she did not get the money he had planned to provide her.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Violence broke out at the hotel as a result of Iboirode’s escalating wrath at Bethel’s purported defamation of him in the community. Behind the hotel, the manager confessed to strangling Bethel to death and then calling her family to demand ransom.
In March, Iboirode, the hotel owner Joseph Ogbole, and two other employees were detained, and the case started to fall into place. They were involved in the strange death of a pastor named Sunday Ogofotha from Lagos. Ogofotha had stayed at the Century Home Hotel on his way to Delta to attend a funeral for family members.
After the hotel staff initially denied Ogofotha’s stay, suspicions began to rise after he was found dead in the premises. Ogofotha was found dead and buried on the grounds of the hotel after the pastor’s family reported him missing.
A Point-of-Sale (PoS) machine, which Iboirode had first said belonged to a forgotten guest, was eventually found over the course of the investigation.
Bethel, who had vanished in December 2024, was found to be the rightful owner of the PoS machine after a thorough inquiry by the authorities. Bethel and Iboirode were involved in a commercial transaction involving N10,000.
Iboirode claimed that the manager had sent the money to her, but she never got it. When Bethel accused Iboirode of fraud and sought the money, the confrontation heated up.
Iboirode confessed that he committed the crime because of this predicament and then tried to disguise his tracks by using the victim’s phone to send ransom messages to her father.
Additional details about the crime were revealed in Iboirode’s statement given during questioning. He detailed the altercation in which he strangled Bethel, abandoned her corpse behind the hotel, and then called her father to demand payment.
He showed no regret for his role in the murder, but he did admit that the disagreement over the N10,000 was the motivating factor. In light of the severe actions he took in reaction to the financial disagreement, Iboirode’s shivering confession and the evidence uncovered by the police have formed a bleak image of the crime.
He said: I am the only one who killed her, After I killed her, I used her phone to text her father to demand ransom.
