Former Minister of State for Education, Kenneth Gbagi, has arrested and charged four staff working in his hotel for purportedly stealing his N5,000.

Caliphate Post gathered that Gbagi, last week Friday, arrested the four staff working in Signatious Hotel, Warri, Delta State and were stripped, photographed inside the hotel before handing them over to the police.

It was gathered by our reporter that after they were severely maltreated, the four staff, a male and three females, were then taken to the Ebrumede Police Station for further interrogation.

Speaking with our reporter, a staff of the hotel disclosed that his colleagues got arrested by the former Minister over the purported theft of the said amount.

He said, “my boss, former Minister of State for Education and owner of Signatious Hotel, Chief Kenneth Gbagi, got  four of my colleagues working for him arrested over an alleged stealing of N5,000 from the hotel when literally the N5,000 was given as a gift to them by one of the guests because of their good behaviour.”

The names of the arrested colleagues were given as Victor Ephraim, Achibong Precious, Rosslyn Okiemute and Gloria Oguzie.

The source said, “Before they were arrested by the police on Friday last week at the hotel, the four staff were stripped (naked) while they were photographed in the presence of the police on the instruction of the ex-Minister.

From further information gathered by our reporter, the hotel management forcefully made some withdrawals from the bank accounts of the four staff through their ATM cards before the police took them away in a waiting van.

The four staff were charged before a magistrate court sitting in Effurun after four days of detention.

In a five-count charge, as contained in the charge document obtained by Caliphate Post, the police prosecuted the suspects of “conspiracy to misappropriate monies ranging from N156,000, N110,000, N5,000 and N2,000 belonging to Signatious Hotel and committed an offence punishable under section 516 and 390 (9), of the criminal code Law Cap21C Vol.1 Law of Delta State.”

The four staff were granted bail on Monday through the arbitration of some anti-corruption and human rights activists, who said they were determined to take up the matter.

Warri-based human rights lawyer, Omemiroro Maxwell Ogedegbe, who confirmed the story, said that the four staff were granted bail by a magistrate court sitting in Effurun, Delta State.

Management of Signatious Hotel declined speaking on the matter.