The Anambra State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of suspects who beat a young lady identified as Miss Chinyere Awuda to death last weekend by fun seekers in a club inside Cosmila Hotel in Awka, Anambra State.
The State Police Spokesperson, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, who confirmed the incident, said the birthday celebrant and his friends were already in police custody while the case is being investigated.
“Contrary to what people are saying about the complicity of Cosmila Hotel, we were assisted by the management of the hotel, to arrest the suspects.
“Investigation is still ongoing,” he said.
The lady who was said to be an indigene of Nnobi in Idemmili South Local Government Area of Anambra State, was found dead in the swimming pool of the hotel on Sunday morning, where she was dumped after being lynched.
A sources disclosed that she was at the club when trouble started and a man said to be a popular clubber, Mr. Gabriel Chinemere and his friends started beating her.
“One of the clubbers accused her of picking money which the fun seekers were spraying on their friend who was a birthday celebrant.
“Some others said she did not only pick money, but went for bundles of money, which a clubber stacked by his seat side, waiting to spray on the celebrant,” a source said.
A regular clubber at Cosmila Hotel told newsmen that “Some of these girls just dress up and come to the club and begin to pick money. While you’re spraying your friends, these girls will just be picking and pocketing the money.
“Because men are already drunk in club, the girls get away with the money. I was not in club last weekend, but I heard that the girl went for money that someone kept by his seat side, which he was getting prepared to go and spray. That was what happened.”
It was gathered that despite efforts made by other people in the club to rescue the girl, they continued to beat and molest her.
She was later dragged outside the club, and her lifeless body dumped into the hotel’s swimming pool.
