Robbers Burgle Hotel Room Of Nigerian Journalist In Ghana

Unidentified robbers have burgled the hotel room of a veteran Nigerian Journalist, Martin-Luther Chukwuemeka King, in Accra, the federal capital of Ghana, making away with his communication gadgets and other valuables
King, who is the President of Journalists for Regional Integration (JORIN), a pan-West
African organisation, was in Accra on official assignment for West African Post, a weekly publication of The Sun newspapers, in partnership with Tempus Communications.
Amongst the valuables that were carted away by the robbers at Hotel C’est Si Bon,
Kokomlemle, Accra, were the Nigerian passport, a return ticket to Lagos; sums of money in various currencies; 2 Dell Inspiron laptops with vital documents and official work at various stages of completion on them; one Samsung video camera; one Samsung still camera; one ipad; one world receiver radio set; one solar-powered audio bible; two mp3 voice recorders and one Vodafoneinternet modem with data, among other valuables.
Narrating his ordeals to newsmen, King said: “I returned from an appointment the night of Friday October 23, 2015 to discover that someone, or some people, had entered my room at Hotel C’est Si Bon, Kokomlemle, Accra, tampered with my suitcase and stolen my property. “Curiously there were no signs of violent entry on the door or anywhere, suggesting an insider job and that the criminal (s) may have had access to the pool of room spare-keys that hotels normally keep.”
He said that the case has since been reported to the Nima police station, the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), Ghana’s tourism sector’s supervisory authority, the Nigeria High Commission in Accra as well as the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA).
But he regretted that it took 19 days before the Ghana police could make the first arrest of the security man on duty at the hotel on the night of the robbery – on November 11. According to him, between the date of reporting the incident and the date of the arrest, no searches were conducted, thereby giving sufficient time for the stolen items to be disposed of and chances of recovery to whittle down to nil.
King is convinced that the police is not showing diligence in investigation and possible recovery because the victim is not a Ghanaian.
“Being a Nigerian makes the case worse. I’ve been resident in this country for years and I know how prejudiced Ghanaian officialdom can sometimes be towards
Nigerians.” [myad]