A Sapele, Delta State-based popular hotelier, Emekeme Joseph (aka Semikolo) has allegedly been beaten to death by two of his children.
Joseph, who is Chairman of Covenant Suites, a hotel chain and a deacon of Winner’s Chapel, was said to fallen gravely ill after his sons assaulted him.
It was alleged that the sons, who graduated from Covenant University, caught the hotelier with a side chick.
They were said to have demanded for One Million Naira bribe from their hotelier father, or they will blow the lid off his illicit affair and inform their mother who was then holidaying in the United States.
The hotelier however called off their bluff, and true to their threat, they reported the sleazy affair to their mother, who was incensed.
A day after, their father dropped by the Coca-Cola depot of the wife, and when the sons saw him, they hounded him out of the place.
According to insiders, the popular hotelier angrily went home and seized the keys to the two sons’ cars.
The action of their father drew their ire, and they descended on him with blows and kicks.
The hotelier was said to have called the police, and the boys broke the head of one of the police officers.
The two boys were arrested, and the assaulted father was rushed to the hospital.
The father’s condition deteriorated quickly, and he was referred to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), where he fought for his life.
It was gathered that the wife quickly flew back to the country and facilitated the release of the sons from police custody.
She was also said to have strangely discharged the husband against the doctor’s advice from UBTH, where he was in a coma.
The wife reportedly brought her husband home where the popular hotelier eventually died.
•Culled from Odejimi Hakeem Lanre Wall (Facebook).
