A 51-year-old American returnee, identified as Sunday Abioye, was found dead in a hotel room in Sagamu, Ogun State.
Gatekeepers News reports that the discovery was made on Wednesday in a hotel located in the GRA area of Sagamu.
Police Public Relations Officer for Ogun State, Omolola Odutola, confirmed the incident in a statement released in Abeokuta, the state capital.
According to Odutola, the Chief Security Officer of the hotel, Mr. Oluwole, reported the situation to the police after discovering the deceased customer.
Upon receiving the report, a team of detectives arrived at the scene and found Abioye’s body placed inside a car outside the hotel, awaiting transport to the morgue by his family.
Further investigation revealed that Abioye’s brother, Jimoh Godday, who resides in Imota, Lagos State, had contacted the police. He informed them that his brother had returned to Nigeria from the USA on November 16, 2024.
Godday explained that he attempted to visit his brother on Monday by knocking on the door of room 109, where Abioye was staying. Not receiving a response, he asked the hotel manager for a spare key to enter the room, where they subsequently discovered his brother’s lifeless body.
“Photos were taken, and various drugs and traditional medicines were recovered from the room,” she said.
“The centre of the bed was soaked with a liquid like substance. A friend of the deceased, Ogunmonti Ogunwole, confirmed that he accompanied his friend, Sunday to purchase nine different types of medication the previous day due to his complaints of illness.
“The body has since been evacuated to the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital Morgue in Sagamu for an autopsy.
“No known cause of death yet, and the case will be transferred to State Criminal Investigation Department for discreet investigation,” the police PRO concluded.
