By Daily Sports on February 19, 2019

Tragedy befell the sprawling Osaze Odemwingie hotel located in Erediuwa road of southern Benin City on Sunday (February 17) evening as unknown gunmen stormed the hotel and shot dead the manager, middle-aged Mr Osato Emovon (a.k.a Sharamuta) from point blank range.

The hotel is owned by retired former Super Eagles striker Osaze Odemwingie and was opened at the height of the player’s playing career some few years ago.

According to eyewitness accounts, the killing bore the trappings of cult-related murder and the innocent manager was sadly caught in the middle of what he knew nothing about.

The gunmen were said to have burst into the lobby of the hotel at about 9:15pm and demanded to see two young men who (were thought to be their targets from a rival cult group) they suspected were lodging in the hotel at the time.

The manager told them that the guys were not lodging in the hotel and that they only came to drink.

But the unbelieving gunmen wanted to spill blood and in anger shot the manager, leaving him to die in a pool of his blood.

One man who left the hotel minutes before the killers struck expressed shock: “I had been in the hotel drinking and left after taking some bottles. Just a few minutes after I left I got a call that Sharamuta had been shot and killed. It’s unbelievable. Who knows who else would have been shot and killed for nothing.”

Friends described Emovon as an easygoing gentleman who had a knack for friendly chats with customers.

“On the day he was killed, he had been so full of life. Moments before the godforsaken killers struck, he was cracking jokes while chatting with some customers. He made sure everyone was comfortable at the hotel,” another eyewitness said.

The spate of cult-related killings, as rival groups wage supremacy wars, in Benin City has become a very worrying trend over the years and recently in the Upper Sapoba area, where the Osaze Odemwingie hotel is located, bloody cult clashes have ramped up

A few weeks ago a police orderly to the Ikpoba Okha Local Government Chairman was reportedly shot and killed by suspected cultists.

•Photo shows slain Osato Emovon a.k.a Sharamuta

Source Daily Sports

Posted February 19, 2019

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