How Hotel Manager Killed, Buried 22-year Old PoS Operator

By Suleiman Anyalewechi

The Delta State Police Command, on Tuesday, May 13, 2025 said they have arrested a hotel manager in connection with the killing of a Point of Sales, POS, operator in Isoko area of Delta State.

Onoriode Bethel, 22-year old PoS operator, was  killed and buried within the premises of the Century Home Hotel in Owhelogbo community, Isoko North Local Council of the State by the Manager, who was simply identified as Iboirode.

According to a statement issued by Bright Edafe, SP, the spokesperson for the Delta state Police Command, Iboirode, who is presently in custody has confessed to  killing  and burying his victim in the hotel premises after demanding and receiving ransom payment from her family.

According to the Police, Bethel was on December 13, 2024 reported missing by her family.

The suspect  contacted Bethel’s father, demanding a ransom.

The suspect was said to have collected the ransom through the victim’s PoS machine ,after obtaining the password.

Consequent upon collecting the ransom, Iboirode proceeded to killing and  burying his victim within the premises of the hotel.

But according to the Police, the suspect’s wife had earlier claimed that her husband killed Bethel for accusing him of using a fake transaction alert to fraudulently withdraw the sum of N10,000 from her account.

According to the suspect’s wife, the husband, after refunding the said N10,000, vowed to get even with Bethel for tarnishing his image.

“My husband called her into the hotel; she was a friend of his.That day, he called her on phone, and took her into a room.

It was around 7pm. I don’t know how he killed her because I was in our own room .It was when he came out around midnight that he told me  he had killed her”, the suspect’s wife stated.

Recalling the details of the incident, the Police Spokesman said “If we remember the Owhelogbo hotel murder case where a PoS  missing girl was recovered from the manager of the hotel.

“On a very sad note, he has confessed that he murdered the girl who owns the PoS . She only went to ask the hotel manager for her money ,and he murdered her because according to him, she spoilt his reputation.

“He killed her, and used her phone to call her father demanding ransom. He even used her PoS to collect the money. He extracted the password from the girl before killing her. Her remains have been recovered,” Idafe noted.

The Police further informed that Bethel’s fate was only known after the same manager, alongside three other staff members of the hotel were, in March, arrested in connection with the killing of a guest, Sunday Ogofotha, whose remains were also recovered at the hotel.