Nigeria’s football star, Nwankwo Kanu has lost N1.4 billion in his hotel business and the Managing Director of the hotel, Mr. Ayoola Gam Ikon, 49, has been arrested and charged to court for the alleged fraud.
Operatives of the Inspector General of Police Monitoring
Unit arrested Ikon, the managing director of Hardley Suites Limited
situated at Waziri Ibrahim Crescent, off Elsie Femi Pearse Street,
Victoria Island, Lagos southwest Nigeria, for allegedly stealing the N1.4 billion belonging to the hotel and suites owned by Kanu.Also arrested along with him over the alleged fraud is a hotel staff, Oke Samuel.They were arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate’s court on a 19-count charge of felony to wit, obtaining money under false pretence.