A 32-year-old man identified as Lanre Ogungbe has been discovered dead with a bottle of insecticide and an alcoholic drink beside his remains in a room at Authentic Hotel in Soyoye area of Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State.
Spokesperson for Ogun Police Command, SP Omolola Odutola, confirmed this in a statement on Friday in Abeokuta.
She said the owner of the facility alerted the police after one of his staff discovered the remains of Ogungbe in the room he lodged in.
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According to the statement, Ogungbe was found at 2 p.m. on Thursday in the hotel room.
Odutola explained that a bottle of one alcoholic drink called “Lakoko” and another bottle of pesticide known as “Sniper” were found beside the deceased in the hotel room.
She stated that on Thursday at 3 p.m. the owner of Authentic Hotel on Soyoye Road reported the incident to the Divisional Police Officer of Lafenwa police station.
“He (the hotel owner) explained that around 2 p.m. of that same day, his hotel’s manager raised an alarm at the hotel and informed him about a customer later identified as Lanre Ogungbe, who had come to the hotel for a short rest.
“The receptionist, after noticing that the customer had not been seen, went to check on him and discovered his lifeless body on the bed.
“They cordoned off the scene, leaving the exhibits untouched before the complainant made a formal report of the incident to the police,” Odutola said.
She said police detectives reacted swiftly, and found the deceased on the bed, alongside an empty bottle of “Lakoko” and a bottle of “sniper”, suspected to have been consumed by him.
“There were no signs of violence found on his body.
“His remains were evacuated to General Hospital in Ijaiye for medical examination, where he was pronounced dead and his body deposited in the morgue for a post-mortem examination,” the spokesperson said.
Odutola said a thorough investigation was ongoing on the matter.
NAN
