Punch reports:
Forty-seven-year-old
Zhen Zhen attempted to kill her lover, Leo Feng, 41, when she set Ernest Hotel
in the Ikeja area of Lagos on fire.
The hotel attendant,
Emeka Nwaegbo, said this at the resumed hearing of the case at the Ebute-Meta
Magistrate’s court.
Nwaegbo told the court
that Zhen accused Feng of sleeping with her without giving her food, which
informed her decision.
Punch Metro had reported that the lovers checked
into the hotel on Allen Avenue, Ikeja, on July 4.
It was alleged that the
couple smoked and shunned the warning of the hotel attendant to stop the act.
However, around 2am on
July 5, the hotel was said to have been gutted by fire.
The couple were
arrested by the police and the case transferred to the State Criminal
Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba.
Although the couple
were arraigned last Wednesday on counts of arson, the magistrate adjourned
till Friday to enable all witnesses to be present in court.
Punch gathered that the suspects, who could not meet their N2m
bail conditions, were remanded in prison.
Present at the resumed
hearing were the manager of the hotel, Ernest Nwayerem; the hotel attendant,
Nwaegbo; and the representative of the Chinese Embassy, who identified himself
only as Olayiwola.
Nwaegbo told the court
that the lovers were customers at the hotel, adding that Feng, who was indebted
to the hotel, dropped his personal effects, including passport, to assure the
management that he would pay his outstanding debts.
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