Delta Hotel Manager M8rders 22-Year-Old POS Operator And Collected Ransom From Her Father

The manager of Century Home Hotel in the Owhelogbo community, located in Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State, named Iboirode, has admitted to the brutal killing of a 22-year-old POS operator, Onoriode Bethel.

LIB reported that Iboirode, along with the security guard and two other hotel staff members, were apprehended in March 2025 for the murder of a guest, Pastor Sunday Ogofotha.

Bethel was reported missing by her family on Friday, December 13, 2024.

The wife of the suspect had previously confessed that her husband killed Bethel because she accused him of using a fraudulent alert to withdraw N10,000 from her account. Bethel reportedly recovered her money, but the suspect swore to kill her in retaliation for ‘ruining his reputation.’

“My husband called her into the hotel; she is a friend of his. That day, he called her on the phone and took her into a room. It was around 7 pm one evening. I don’t know how he killed her because I was in our room. It was when he came out around midnight that he told me he had killed her,” the wife said.

The Delta State Police Command’s spokesperson, SP Bright Edafe, confirmed the incident in a statement issued on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, stating that the suspect murdered Bethel and buried her body on the hotel premises.

According to Edafe, the suspect demanded ransom from Bethel’s father and used her POS machine to collect the money after obtaining the password from her. He then killed her.

He noted that her remains have been recovered.

“If we remember the Owhelogbo hotel murder case, where a POS of a 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 spoiled his reputation. He killed her and used her phone to call her father, demanding ransom. He even used her POS to collect the money, extracted the password from the girl before killing her. Her remains have been recovered,” the PPRO stated.

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