The City Reporters
Three hotel attendants, who allegedly recorded a customer’s sexual affair and demanded a ransom of N10 million have been charged before an Ogudu Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos.
The employees had used the hotel’s CCTV to record the guest’s sexual exploit with his girlfriend.
The accused: Sunday Okon, 23; Rita Emmanuel, 28; and Goodness Akpan, 24, whose addresses are unknown, are facing a four-count charge of fraud, demanding property with menace, conspiracy and indecent practices.
Prosecutor Uche Simon told the court, Thursday, that the accused had on Aug. 13 at a hotel in Ogudu area of Lagos conspired to record a guest while sleeping with his girlfriend.
He said, the accused produced a VCD on it which they circulated to residents of the area, adding that they also demanded a N10 million ransom and threatened to post it on the Facebook if the man failed to part with the money.
“The accused actually posted it on the Facebook between Aug. 13 and 23,” he said
“The offences contravened Sections 136, 166 (d), 299 and 409 of Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011,” he added.
The suspects face a minimum of three years each on conviction.
The suspects however pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to them and were granted bail in the sum of N100, 000 each with two sureties each in like sum.
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs. O.J Awope, adjourned the case to September 19, for mention, while the three accused persons were however taken to Kirikiri Prisons pending the fulfillment of their bail conditions.
Source: News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
