A 23-year-old security guard, Sunday Ezra, was reportedly beaten to death by yet-to-be-identified persons at the New Trafford Hotel and Suites in the Gwallameji area of Bauchi metropolis.

Our correspondent gathered that the incident happened around 2:00 am on Monday, May 25th, 2020, when residents of the area descended on the deceased and beat him until he lost consciousness.

A source told Flavision that a mobile phone got missing on the premises of the hotel and the deceased was suspected to have stolen it, but he unsuccessfully protested his innocence.

The source added that the crowd that gathered did not believe him and started beating him with the aim of recovering the phone, but he was said to have maintained his innocence.

In the process, the victim slumped and became unconscious, while the missing phone was later found by a corps member, who returned it.

Another source and a neighbour to the deceased, who spoke on condition of anonymity, stated that Ezra sustained injuries to his face, as well as fractures on his left arm and right leg.

He added that the deceased was stripped and abandoned in a hut on the hotel premises until the security guard, who was to relieve him, saw him in that state and quickly alerted their security outsourcing firm.

The neighbour said,

The security company sent its supervisor, who came to the place and when he saw Ezra’s condition, he informed his grandmother and she called me.

We went to the Yelwa Divisional Police Station and made a report, but the police personnel said we should go and bring him.

We went and conveyed him to the station in a tricycle and from there, we rushed him to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospital around 2pm and medical officials pronounced him dead around 3:15 pm.

What surprised us was how they dumped him in that place for several hours without anyone taking him to the hospital until his colleague came.

He sustained fractures in some parts of his body. It was while the doctor was trying to pass the drip to him that we noticed that he had stopped breathing.

Justin Nwosu

Justin Nwosu is the founder and publisher of Flavision. His core interest is in writing unbiased news about Nigeria in particular and Africa in general. He’s a strong adherent of investigative journalism, with a bent on exposing corruption, abuse of power and societal ills.