Stripped Staff Scandal! I’ve Nothing To Do With ‘Those Caught In Sexual Escapade’ – Gbagi Reacts

Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, a former minister of State Education, has denied allegations that he made some of his female and male staff to strip naked as punishment over alleged stealing in his hotel.

BIGPEN reports he spoke a day after the supposed victims through their lawyers had demanded a public apology and payment of N1 billion naira as compensation for the damages they suffered from the trending photographs which has since gone viral.

The supposed victims were reportedly arrested, dehumanized with their half naked bodies put on video and photo cameras over allegations that they stole some money ranging from N2,000, N5,000 and N110,000 from Signatious Hotel belonging to Gbagi.

But an audio tape from where Gbagi refuted the allegations, is also widely being circulated on social media.

Gbagi, in the tape said:

“My attention has just been drawn to trending photographs in virtually Nigerian social media and blogs. First and foremost, the videos in circulation are fictitious- made videos and none of those people lined up in the video are a staff of GKO Properties or any organisation associated with my person.

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“What you see circulating are photographs of these persons who were sexually harassing themselves in one of our guest houses, not the hotel, as it is being rumoured.

“While some of them came to seek application to work in the hotel and have lasted less than six days, they all went into stealing of various sums of amount in the hotel, where fight broke out with the purported married woman and some other citizens involved with them sexually.

“If they are staff, I ask the general public to demand their letters of engagement or employment. At best, they are freelance people, who come around with the intention to seek jobs and most probably they may have been going through the screening process, but not staff of the hotel or any of our system.

“Now take the question of if it is indeed true, the pictures you have seen, did you see any injury or torture on them, and they were swimming. First and foremost, they were swimming, they had come out of the guest house where they were sleeping with themselves, I have nothing to do with it.

“They were the ones that brought themselves to lodge a complaint, I never would take such photographs nor my children to circulate, no, it was all planned by political opponents, I cannot do that, I was a former chairman of the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria and I know what it takes.

“I categorically say that all of these are motivated to smear me (laughs), not knowing that I am not moved by such lies. I am not involved, I am laughing at them because all they needed to have done is to try and make sure of what they want to show to Deltans, as to why a jobless man, a man that has nothing to offer should come and govern them, I have presented my credentials to the world and that I know is good enough.”

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“In any case, let us deal with the issue of theft which is the main matter here. These are people who stole, we have their statements in writing, in fact, they were writing against themselves. So, it was all politically motivated. We have no business with it”.