Adamawa govt gives hoteliers ultimatum to install CCTV cameras after suspected ritualist beheads lady in hotel

On Monday, the Adamawa government gave hoteliers a six-week ultimatum to install Close-Circuit Television cameras in their facilities for effective security surveillance and patron safety.

The state’s deputy governor, Kaleptapwa Farauta, issued the ultimatum at an emergency security meeting with hotel proprietors in Adamawa.

She warned that failure to comply with the directive would attract sanctions.

Responding, Samuel Adwata, the chairman of the Association of Hoteliers in Adamawa, assured that the directive would be complied with speedily.

The ultimatum followed Thursday’s beheading of a middle-aged divorcee in a hotel room in Yola by a suspected ritualist.

Police in Adamawa have already arrested some suspects in connection with the beheading of the lady.

Three hotel employees on duty at the time of the incident were also arrested.

The suspected ritualist allegedly took his victim to the hotel where he was lodged as a guest, beheaded her and left the scene with her decapitated head.

Confirming the arrests on Friday, the police spokesman in Adamawa, SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, said the lady’s ex-husband, Auwal Garba, identified the remains of his estranged wife at a hospital on Friday.

Mr Garba, who confirmed the identity of the deceased to the police, said she was his ex-wife, whom he married about six years ago.

He said the union produced one child, but due to some irreconcilable differences, he divorced the lady in December 2023. 

(NAN)