Recall, that Mr Kenneth Gbagi, former Minister of State for Education, and owner of Signatious Hotel, Warri, Delta State, stripped four of his female staff naked claiming there was a case of theft.
However, Mr Kunle Edun of Tri-Lex Partners law firm, the legal representative of the victims on Wednesday in a letter titled ‘Trial by ordeal, torture, stripping naked and bestial conduct of Signatious Hotel and yourself in an organised show of shame and animalism: Notice of intention to seek full legal redress’.
Mr. Kunle on behalf of the victims is demanding for the sum of N1b as modest damages and compensation, and gave the Ex-Minister five days to deliver amongst others.
He said:
“That after the guest’s stay, he gave our clients the sum of N105, 000 as tips for the good time that he had at the hotel.
“This again, is not unusual in the hospitality business. That the hotel did not lose any money neither was any alleged to have been stolen.
“You told our clients menacingly that they are not entitled to tips, as all tips belong to you. As a matter of fact, you categorically stated that they were not supposed to have monies in their accounts as long as they were working for you.”
According to the Letter, Gbagi allegedly forcibly took the victims, one of whom was a married woman to the hotel warehouse in the presence and assistance of the armed mobile policemen and at gunpoint ordered them “to pull off their clothes”.
“the threatening presence of the armed policemen who willingly did your bidding, you directed your son of 15 years old (a minor) Master Egba Gbagi, to film and take photos of our clients’ nakedness” and then “summoned the other staff of the hotel to see the nakedness of our clients”.
