Hotelier Opara Macdonald acknowledged that he had sexually assaulted sixteen-year-old Chigozie Edozie, a Lagos secondary school student who went insane after coming forward and claiming that he had sexually assaulted him in the Isheri Oshun neighborhood.
Opara Macdonald was detained by Lagos State’s Zone 2 Police Command on charges of having illegal carnal knowledge of a teenage boy.
The kid apparently told his mother that he had a confession to make before the New Year, which sparked the episode that startled his parents.
After learning that the head of a well-known hotel in the neighborhood had enticed him and four of his classmates to his apartment, sodomised them, and threatened to kill them if they told anybody, the mother reluctantly complied with her son’s request for anonymity only to become alarmed.
Edozie Christian, 44, the boy’s father and a spare parts salesman at Lagos’ Ladipo Auto Spare Parts Market, said, “After the confession, my son started acting like a crazy person.”
“We rushed him to a prayer house and after some days when he became a bit sober, we took him to Isheri Osun police station where he made statement and narrated his ugly encounter with the hotelier.
“Shockingly, after he disclosed the names of his fellow students that took him to meet the Chief Executive Officer of the hotel, he relapsed and started behaving like a mad person. The police went to invite the students he mentioned but succeeded in getting only one of them who boldly came with a laptop and gave detailed accounts of how the hotelier sodomised them.
“He told detectives that they went to the hotel to partake in a Tik Tok programme only for the owner of the hotel, usually addressed as CEO, to lure them inside one of the rooms and promised to pay them N5,000 after sodomising them.
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The suspect was paraded at the command headquarters in Onikan by CSP Ummal Ayuba, the Zonal Public Relations Officer (ZPRO).
In an interview with reporters, the suspect denied ever sodomising a boy. He declared, “Unless a judge finds me guilty, I never did it.”
however, Opara Macdonald later admitted to the crime that he has sex with the teenager twice.
He said, “I swear with my life that is only sex that I had with Chigozie Edozie, that I never used him for any ritual.”
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