The police in Imo State said it has arrested Ibe Obasi, the owner of Our Guest Hotel, in Umulogho Obowo LGA of the State for the alleged murder of his staff identified as Ebuka.

Obasi and one military personnel were reported to have tortured Ebuka Nwaneri, a staff of the hospital, to death over a missing phone.

Sources said Nwaneri was accused of stealing the phone belonging to the military personnel who was a guest at the facility.

Nwaneri was reportedly tortured and locked up in the hotel’s generator room where he finally died.

In a statement on Sunday, Henry Okoye, police spokesperson in Imo, said the hotel owner has provided useful information that will assist in arresting two other fleeing “conspirators” at large.

“Operatives of Obowo Divisional Police Headquarters, have arrested the owner of ‘Our Guest House’, Umulogho, Obowo, Mr. Ibe Obasi, 38yrs, who was allegedly involved in the murder of a 25-year-old Ebuka Udemba, ‘m’, an indigene of Umuokpa in Obowo LGA of Imo State,” the statement reads.

“Preliminary investigations revealed that the victim was tortured and locked up inside the generator room of the said guest house by the suspect and two others at large, where he suffocated to death, on the accusation of stealing a customer’s handset.

Because of a phone? Why do Nigerians treat suspicions as facts? If you torture a suspect and he or she is later proven innocent, what will you do?

Those beasts should be tortured too.