SKI International Hotel has countered the ‘malicious’ insecurity claims authored on social media by one Mr Adeoba Shedrach who was a one-night guest in the hotel at Bogije, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria.
Gatekeepers News reports that Adeoba had made claims on social media suggesting that the owner of the hotel was into kidnapping or rituals, as he labelled the hotel as a ‘Lion’s den’.
Adeoba, who lodged in the hotel alongside his team (who were in a separate room), said someone knocked on his door around 1.00 a.m, according to him, when he inquired who it was, the person replied ‘reception’. “I answered again ‘what do you want, he did not answer and walked away.”
He wrote: “I called the reception to my surprise they said they are not aware and they did not send anyone to my room. So immediately i called the other men in the second room not to open their door until I tell them to do so. I quickly called a DSP in Abuja and an inspector in zone 2 Ikoyi and started calling the management of the hotel thru (sic) their directories on the table. By 6.30 am we open (sic) the door behold our corridor light was off and the CCTV not working. The receptionist said they could not fish out the person up till now. I called a friend that leaves (sic) around the place and he confirms that those 3 jeeps where (sic) owned by the owner of the hotel. That means we are the only lodger. who knows maybe we could have been either killed/kidnapped/robbed. May God save us from this (sic) hoteliers.”
Countering his claims, the Management of SKI International Hotel expressed shock that “a simple incident of mistaken room identity by another guest, which was promptly addressed and resolved, was maliciously used as a tool for defaming our esteemed hotel, in an attempt to tarnish the reputation which we have built with the highest level of hoteling services over the years.”
The Management explained that Adeoba stayed in the hotel on the 11th of April, 2022 and upon his complaint that an unknown person knocked at the door, they “swung into action immediately, and through a remote online review of our CCTV footage, was able to identify that a guest had knocked on Mr Adeoba’s door.”
The statement reads in part: “When the guest was questioned, he said that having gone down from his floor to look for a phone charger at the reception, he came back up and knocked on the door of Mr. Adeoba’s room; thinking that it was his room because they were at about the same location, but at different floors; he mistook the floor for his. He also added that he was expecting his partner, who was in the room, to open the door for him but when a strange voice answered him, he walked away, knowing that he has knocked on a wrong door (we have the CCTV footage).
The hotel management, being aware of the current security situation in the country, did not leave the matter at that but went further and immediately embarked on full scale security check in and around the hotel premises; but there was no apparent threat. Our security personnel who were on duty were all mobilized on this task.
To allay Mr. Adeoba’s apprehension, we deployed one of the security personnel to mount guard PERMANENTLY in front of Mr. Adeoba’s door till break of day (Mr. Shedrack Adeoba acknowledged this).
While we understand the security apprehension in the country, it is unfair to blackmail a fellow citizen or business with insinuations that cause harm to their good image and integrity among members of the public. Despite all our efforts to assuage the concerns of Mr. Shedrach Adeoba, and having resolved his complaints, we were shocked to see the falsehood authored by him in the social media.
We hereby emphatically state that the insecurity insinuated in the message against SKI International Hotel, Bogije, Lagos, is false. It is also very clear that Mr. Adeoba was out to deliberately tarnish our image when he stated in a video he circulated that the hotel was dark and CCTV not working. It is strange how a guest could just conclude that our CCTV was not working. As evident in the CCTV footage we have, it is clear that our lighting and CCTV are efficiently working as against his statement (all CCTV footages for that night are available).
Mr Adeoba also insinuated that he and his team were the only guests in the hotel for the night. That was a blatant lie as can be inferred from the foregoing explanations and the available CCTV footages.
We call on our esteemed customers and the general public to, kindly, disregard the harmful publication against SKI International Hotel, Bogije, Ibeju Lekki, Lagos.
Being a responsible and responsive organization which continuously hosts many guests and events, we assure our customers and the general public of our firm commitment to continue to render topnotch professional hospitality services at all times.
God bless Nigeria!”
