Governor Okowa's Lawyer Lost $200,000 (N44.6m) In a Hotel In Asaba

        

The Lawyer of the Governor of Delta State, handling the election Petition against him has lost a sum of $200,000  (N44.6m)  in a hotel opposite the Tribunal where he has been staying.
The Election Tribunal will delivers its Verdict Today,but what the stolen money was meant for is unknown, but the Commissioner of Police of Delta State said $100,000 was the amount stolen.
It was learnt that the money was stolen from Chalet 111 in the hotel where one of the defence Lawyers was residing.

The lead lawyers in the defence team are: Dr. Alex Izinyon (SAN) representing Okowa (the first respondent); Mr. A.T. Kehinde (SAN) for  the PDP  and Damien Dodo (SAN) for the third respondent (INEC).
It was learnt that 4 suspects were arrested, 2 female ,2 male The suspects are Uchechukwu, Florence , Favour and  Chidozie, one of the suspect been a girlfriend of the lawyer.
The suspect were  granted bail in the sum of  N180,000, the male paid N80,000, while another paid N50,000,the last two suspect were held in the police custody till their families were able to pay the money.

The Commissioner of Police however denied that the suspect paid money for their bail, that bail is free.adding that they had to release the suspect because the lawyer refused to formally lodge a complaint.

His words: ‘We have received a case of stolen money from Grand Hotel by the chief security officer of the hotel, who reported that one of his guests lost the sum of $100,000.We incidented the matter at the Police ‘A’ Division and requested that those who worked overnight and those who had the keys to the chalet and those on night duty on that day appear at the police station.
“We visited the scene of the incident. When we did not see the complainant, we had to release those four persons pending when the complainant will come and formally lodge a complaint.
“But the CSO petitioned the Police ‘A’ Division and the matter was transferred to the State Criminal investigation Department. We released the four suspects when the complainant still failed to turn up. We held four suspects .Two of them – members of staff of the hotel, but the other two are not members of staff. The only connection is that one of them is the boyfriend to one of the suspects.
“On the issue of paying N180, 000 as bail, as far as I am concerned, the officer in charge says he does not know anything about it.”