Bullion Hotel Counts Losses After Attack By Hoodlums

Management and staff of Bullion Hotel in the Shimawa area of Ogun State are currently counting their losses, after an early morning attack on the hotel in the early hours of yesterday.

Occupants and lodgers were rudely woken up by over 20 political thugs, allegedly led by three police officers, a source told The Eagle.
Thus started a stampede of terror, looting and kicking that lasted for hours and shook the entire neighbourhood.
Shockingly, the attackers announced that they were boys of Alowonle of Shimawa, the chairman of the motorcycle (Okada) riders.
As at the time of this report, management and staff were still counting their losses, even as they discussed further threats of the attackers that they were coming back.

The head of the company’s legal team, Barrister Isaac Izunya, while reacting yesterday,
advised the police to take up the matter and fish out those lendiytheir office to terror and intimidation of law abiding citizens.
“ we call on the Commissioner of Police, Ogun state, and Police the disciplinary department to investigate and sieve away this bad officer in other to save the image of the Force and thereby properly secure the safety of life and properties of Nigerians,” he said.

Izunya’s stance is informed by assertion that police officers not only facilitated the thugs but also harassed 2 security men by the company’s reception whom they slapped and pulled their uniforms.

There were indication that the hotel’s CCTV system captured the identities of both the thugs and the police officers involved in the attack.
One of the thugs issued a chilling warning, stating, “We are still coming back to fight you, and we must kill at least three persons.” He also claimed that Shimawa belonged to the APC (All Progressives Congress), and anyone opposing this political party, including the hotel owner, Ajadi, should leave the area.

Jamiu Opeyemi, one of the security officers, said there was a similar attack on September 5, 2023, by a group of thugs, who disguised as soldiers, stormed the Bullion Hotel.

Opeyemi said that during that incident, Taiwo Lawal, a security guard, was seriously injured while attempting to protect Ambassador Olufemi Ajadi, the hotel’s CEO and a gubernatorial candidate for the 2023 general election in Ogun State under the political party NNPP.

“It was the hotel’s intelligence officers who played a crucial role in the arrest of Nwokparo Offor, one of the assailants from the September attack. However, rather than detaining Offor, the security personnel who apprehended him were arrested and charged,” he said.

Ambassador Ajadi, visibly boarderd by the persistent attacks on his hotel and his person, has called for an investigation into the role of the Shimawa police station in the latest attack.

He asserted that these incidents would not deter his efforts to champion the welfare of Nigerian youths.

He said, “They can never stop my action as the voice of the Nigerian youths whose actions are to work on the progress of welfare of the poor and vulnerable youths.”

“The police officers that slapped the security guards while watching television should be penalized for such action.

“These boys are always found in the Secondary School in Shimawa initiating themselves into nefarious activities and terrorizing innocent people in the town,” he said.

Ajadi also appealed to the Commissioner of Police, Ogun State, that the authority from the Shimawa police station for interrogation for the invasion of Bullion Hotel with thugs

Among the items looted were phones, a substantial sum of money, and numerous power banks used for charging mobile devices.

Shockingly, five hotel security personnel were arrested during the commotion.