Armed agents of the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have reportedly invaded the conference Hotels, part of a luxury accommodation chain run by former Governor Gbenga Daniel in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
It was learnt that the EFCC agents stripped guests in the incident which occurred on Saturday night, Peoples Gazette reports.
The officers reportedly arrived just before midnight on Saturday and operated well into the early hours of Sunday morning, witnesses said. They reportedly forcibly broke into guest rooms unannounced and stripped them of any dignity.
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Scores of guests were said to have been arrested during the operation, many of whom were accused of being Internet fraudsters. An awards ceremony that was going on at the hotel was disrupted, but additional details of the raid remained unclear.
“They accused my friend Emmanuel of being a Yahoo boy and stripped him and his girlfriend,” a witness told The Gazette on Sunday morning. “They were also robbed of their money and phones before being badly tortured.
“He was not taken away but we don’t know how we can get his phones and money back,” his friend who witnessed the incident said.
The EFCC is yet to comment on the action.
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