The management of Signatious Hotel, Effurun, Delta State, has described as false, an allegation that its chairman, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, was involved in the molestation of its staff.
The denial was made on Tuesday in a statement issued by the hotel’s Director, Human Resources, Egba Ederoghene.
Ederoghene said the allegation was part of a malicious conspiracy by some political detractors to bring Gbagi’s character to disrepute.
The staff said to be making the allegation, the hotel management said, were being investigated over alleged financial malpractices, and that some funds had been recovered from them.
The human resources boss at the hotel asserted that “at no time did Gbagi subject any staff of the Hotel to such humiliation as he is presently bereaved and occupied with preparing for the funeral of his sister who passed away recently.”
He said it was in the absence of any dirt to nail Gbagi’s pristine reputation that his detractors resorted to mudslinging by concocting fictitious stories to stir emotions and gain public attention.
Ederoghene stated further: “The management, therefore, calls on the public to disregard such cheap blackmail orchestrated by these desperate detractors deployed to work against Kenneth Gbagi’s governorship ambition.
“Finally, we wish to restate our commitment towards ensuring the highest ethical standards in the hospitality industry in Nigeria, while making it a priority to guarantee the welfare of employees engaged by our organisation.”
