Iboirode, the manager of Century Home Hotel in Owhelogbo community, Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State, has confessed to killing a 22-year-old POS operator, Onoriode Bethel.
TheNewsGuru learnt that the 22-year-old POS operator was declared missing by her family on Friday 13th Dec, 2024.
Iboirode, the security guard; and two other staff members were arrested in March 2025 for the murder of a guest, Pastor Sunday Ogofotha, when the suspect’s wife confessed that he also killed Bethel because she accused him of using a fake alert to withdraw N10,000 from her account.
Bethel was said to have recovered her money, but the suspect vowed to kill her in retaliation.
“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,” she said.
Confirming the development, the spokesperson of the Delta State Police Command, SP Bright Edafe, in a statement on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, said the suspect killed Bethel and buried her body on the hotel premises.
According to Edafe, the suspect demanded ransom from Bethel’s father after killing her and used her POS machine to collect the money.
He added 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 m&rdered her because, according to him, she spoiled his reputation. He k!lled 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 k!lling her. Her remains have been recovered,” the PPRO state.