By Osagie Alonge and Kenneth Atisele
The management at Sheraton Hotels in Ikeja have beefed up their security level, following reports of a plan to attack the hotel.
The US warned its citizens of a plan to attack one of two Sheraton hotels near Lagos. A statement by the State Department said those behind the plot were ‘groups associated with terrorism’.
A reporter who paid a visit to the hotel situated at 30, Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Airport Road, Ikeja, Lagos says the security level has seriously been heightened.
The entrance into the hotel’s premises has been blocked off with a security truck parked in front of it, leaving the vehicles to access through the exit passage only. Security has been doubled and bomb detectors are currently being used to check all vehicles going into the hotel residence.
‘We were given instruction to check all the vehicles very well. Management said we should do so’, a security detail stationed at the entrance of the hotel’s main gate told a NET reporter.
Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola has faulted the US bomb threat report on the state, saying it could cause panic in the country.
‘There is no further information regarding the timing and method of the attack. US citizens were just cautioned to avoid the hotel. I think there are channels of communication which information of that type can shared without creating panic. And I think that citizens of all nations can be protected without throwing a cat among pidgins’, Fashola said last week.
