Rivers: Condemnation as Ceemore CEO, Maduba Okechi strips female birthday celebrants naked at nightclub

The attacked ladies

Two young women have narrated what could be summed up as a life-scarring ordeal after allegedly being assaulted by a popular Port Harcourt-based realtor, Maduba Okechi Christian, and his security details at a nightclub in the Rivers State capital.

Saturday PUNCH learnt that what was meant to be a night of carefree fun turned into a horror scene when they were allegedly beaten to a pulp, stripped naked, and one was left bleeding profusely from the head after the said Maduba reportedly smashed a bottle on her head.

The incident, which occurred in the early hours of Thursday at Blacbox nightclub, has generated outrage on social media after the ladies shared videos narrating their ordeal.

‘He assaulted us for refusing love advances’

They accused Maduba, the Chief Executive Officer of Ceemore Group of Companies, a real estate firm, and a Mobile Police officer attached to him, of assaulting them after one of them allegedly declined the realtor’s advances.

The ladies lamented that the attack left them with broken heads, broken teeth, and other bodily injuries.

Saturday PUNCH gathered that one of the ladies, Thonia Okoye, had made reservations at the club after paying the sum of N200,000 to celebrate her birthday with friends.

It was further gathered that the incident was reported at the Olu Obasanjo Divisional Police Station in Port Harcourt.

Narrating her ordeal in a video posted on TikTok, Okoye said the suspect had approached them at their reserved table and asked if he could join them, but they refused.

She added that Maduba flared up when he noticed one of the ladies making a video while dancing and ordered her to stop.