Hotel murder: We fabricated fake receipt to cover up death of Adegoke, receptionist tells court
A receptionist ,Adesola Adedeji at Hilton Hotels and Resort, Ile-Ife, Osun State, where, Timothy Adegoke ,Master’s student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife was allegedly murdered on November 5, 2021, has opened up that she was ordered to fabricate another receipt which will not show name of the late student, as a cover up
Penpushing reports that, the receptionist told the court during cross examination in Osogbo, that the run-away son of the owner of the hotel, Roheem Adedoyin, who is the Managing Director of the Hotel influenced her to replace the late student name with Adewale Lekan and receipt number 7316.
The receptionist who admitted that, she attended to the deceased, having booked him into room 305, after payment from him, confessed that the late student’s name was removed from the hotel guest record in order to cover the fact that he lodged in the hotel.
Penpushing further reports that, Adedeji who appeared as a witness before the Osun State High Court in Osogbo disclosed that after the news of the student death broke, she was called to a meeting where the hotel managing director, Roheem Adedoyin, told her to fabricate another receipt which will not show name of the late student.
“I was at Ilesha when I received a call from Esther, one of the workers of the hotel, that there was an urgent meeting at the chairman’s house. I told her that I was not around to attend the meeting. Few minutes later, another person called me again saying that I must attend the meeting’, she told the court.
‘When I enquired why I must attend the meeting, he said it was because a receipt was missing, then I said I don’t know how it got missing. I later told Esther to send me the address of the chairman’s house and I went there” she said.
“When I got there, Prince Roheem came to me and requested that I follow him to a place within the compound. After we got there, he told me that a receipt was missing, then I told him I don’t know anything about the missing receipt because I balanced my account to the auditor before I left the hotel’, she added.
“Prince Roheem then told me that he is my boss and he will not lie to me and that he will protect me. He gave me a blank receipt of the hotel and he wrote a name on a separate paper which said I should write the name on the receipt and sign on the receipt. The name he wrote on the paper was Adewale Lekan and nobody bears that name in the list of people who lodged in the hotel on that day,” she stated .
“I obliged because I felt they were trying to cover up a fraud and since he is my boss and it was the hotel receipt and he said he was protecting me. After signing the receipt, he collected it back from me’, the receptionist said
Penpushing also reports that, the witness said the fabrication of receipts was done in the house of the owner of the hotel, Rahmon Adedoyin, adding that he was, however, nit within the vicinity when the discussion was held
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