A middle-aged man simply identified as Ken was said to have been found dead in his room while lodging in a hotel in the D/Line area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital.
Ken was said to have checked into the hotel on Saturday while his lifeless body was discovered on Sunday.
The circumstances surrounding his death were not clear as of press time.
A staff member of the hotel was said to have reported the matter to a nearby police station from where detectives were drafted to the scene.
When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Grace Iringe-Koko, confirmed the incident, saying the investigation is ongoing.
Iringe-Koko, a Superintendent of Police, said operatives had been to the hotel and the body deposited in a mortuary.
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“Yes, we are aware of the incident and the man’s corpse has been retrieved. Our men took photographs and a preliminary investigation was done.
“Investigation is still ongoing to ascertain the immediate and remote causes of the death as well as the circumstances,” she said.
Meanwhile, the National Coordinator of the Centre for Basic Rights Protection and Accountability Campaign, Prince Wiro, has called on the state government to set up a task force to enforce the installation and the use of CCTV cameras in hotels and guest houses to improve security.
He said, “Investigations showed that many hotels are not complying with check-in procedures stipulated by the state government sometime in 2018 and 2019 when there were issues of serial killing of young girls in some hotels in the state.
“The essence of complying with check-in procedure, for instance having CCTV camera, log-in register and so on is that if there are issues, it will be easy for the police to investigate.”
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