LAGOS: Hotel attendants docked for creating sex tape to blackmail customer

 

Three hotel attendants, who allegedly recorded a customer’s sexual affair and demanded a

 ransom of N10 million, were on Thursday charged before an Ogudu Chief Magistrates’ 

Court in Lagos. The employees had used the hotel’s CCTV to record the guest’s sexual 

exploit with his girlfriend. The accused: Sunday Okon, 23; Rita Emmanuel, 28; and 

Goodness Akpan, 24, whose addresses are unknown, are facing a four-count charge of 

fraud, demanding property with menace, conspiracy and indecent practices. Prosecutor 

Uche Simon told the court that the accused had on Aug. 13 at a hotel in Ogudu area of 

Lagos conspired to record a guest while sleeping with his girlfriend. According to him, the 

accused produced a VCD on it which they circulated to residents of the area. He alleged 

that they also demanded a N10 million ransom and threatened to post it on the facebook if 

the man failed to part with the money. “The accused actually posted it on the facebook 

between Aug. 13 and 23.’’ Simon said the offences contravened Sections 136, 166 (d), 299 

and 409 of Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. The  accused may be sentenced to a 

minimum of three years each on conviction. The three men pleaded not guilty and were 

granted bail in the sum of N100, 000 each with two sureties each in like sum. Three 

attendants were taken to Kirikiri Prisons pending the fulfillment of their bail conditions. The 

Chief Magistrate, Mrs O. J. Awope, adjourned the case to Sept. 19 for mention.