Zanzibar hotel deletes statement accusing Zainab Oladehinde of affair with ‘assaulter’

Warere Beach Hotel in Nungwi, Zanzibar, has deleted a statement where Zainab Oladehinde, a Nigerian guest, was accused of having a “love affair” with her alleged assaulter.

Oladehinde had earlier narrated her near-rape experience at the Tanzania hotel.

The Nigerian said she travelled to Zanzibar on April 15, 2021, and booked a room at the beach-side hotel for her birthday.

She alleged that in the early hours of April 17, she felt a hand stroking her unclad body in her pitch-dark room.

She said this was despite that she had locked herself in before going to bed the night before.

Oladehinde said she woke up in shock to an unclad male who attempted to rape her but she eventually escaped.

The accuser said she had reported the matter to the hotel but they dismissed her story as “lies”.

She added that the Tanzanian police also dismissed the case after a medical exam showed there was no penetration.

In the current version of its statement, the resort said it tried its best to support Oladehinde after the incident but she refused to take the case further after it was reported to the Zanzibar authorities in 2021.

However, a previous version of the statement, which was deleted shortly after it was put out, had included several paragraphs accusing Oladehinde of being complicit in the alleged assault case.

The hotel had said she was having an affair with one of the security guards who accessed her room with her consent.

It also added that the police suggested the matter was a case for the civil courts but the accuser had threatened to “tarnish” the hotel’s image if not compensated with $10,000.

Read the deleted statement below: