Nigeria, April 8 -- The police in Imo State, South-east Nigeria, say they have arrested a hotelier over the death of an employee of his hotel.

The suspect, Ibeh Obasi, 38, owns the hotel, Our Guest House, in the Umulogho community in the Obowo Local Government Area of the state.

Mr Obasi was said to have been arrested in connection to the death of the 25-year-old victim, Ebuka Udemba, who allegedly suffocated to death after he was tortured and locked up in the hotel's generator house for alleged stealing of a customer's mobile phone.

The late Udemba was a staff member in the hotel until his death.

The police spokesperson in Imo State, Henry Okoye, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.

Mr Okoye, an assistant superintendent of polic...