The manager of Century Home Hotel in Owhelogbo community, Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State, Iboirode, has confessed to the brutal murder of a 22-year-old POS operator, Onoriode Bethel.
LIB reported that Iboirode, the security guard, and two other staff members were arrested in March 2025 for the murder of a guest, Pastor Sunday Ogofotha. read here
Bethel was declared missing by her family on Friday, 13th December, 2024.
The suspect’s wife had earlier confessed that her husband killed Bethel because she accused him of using a fake alert to withdraw N10,000 from her account. Bethel was said to have recovered her money, but the suspect vowed to kill her in retaliation for ‘ruining his reputation.‘
“My husband called her into the hotel; she is a friend of his. That day, he called her on the phone and took her into a room. It was around 7 pm one evening. I don’t know how he killed her because I was in our room. It was when he came out around midnight that he told me he had killed her,” the wife said.
The spokesperson of the Delta State Police Command, SP Bright Edafe, who confirmed the development in a statement on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, said the suspect murdered Bethel and buried her body on the hotel premises.
According to Edafe, the suspect demanded ransom from Bethel’s father and used her POS machine to collect the money after getting the password from her. He then killed her.
He added that her remains have been recovered.
“If we remember the Owhelogbo hotel murder case, where a POS of a missing girl was recovered from the manager of the hotel. On a very sad note, he has confessed that he murdered the girl who owns the POS. She only went to ask the hotel manager for her money, and he murdered her because, according to him, she spoiled his reputation. He killed her and used her phone to call her father, demanding ransom. He even used her POS to collect the money, extracted the password from the girl before killing her. Her remains have been recovered,” the PPRO stated.
