A couple, Kennedy and Vivian, in a wedding reception at Concord Hotel,
Owerri in Imo state, got disappointed, when the light went off and
lasted longer than expected.
The incident which happened ,Friday, saw
the groom and bride fumed over what they described as” embarrassment
before their invitees.”
When the groom could not bear the arena
enveloped in darkness, he jumped out from the wedding hall to the
reception desk and started shouting demanding for explanation. The
receptionists who were at duty scampered for safety. “You people are not
serious, you shut down the light and shut out my personalities”, he
said. He continued, “Today is my happiest day and you brought down my
happiness ? I am not happy with you people. You must pay for this.”
Kennedy insisted that the power outage did not go down well with him
neither did it add colour to his wedding event. He said: “This has
brought me shame and anger.” “Why is this happening to me on my wedding
day.
A day that suppose to be a day of joy and look at what has
happened to me”, Kennedy cried out. He said: ” You must pay me back my
money. You cannot deliver on the money I paid to you. Can you imagine
the amount of money I paid but what I have received today is insult.
“This Hotel has bleeped me up.They have turned down my wedding. Where is
the management ? they must pay for this mess. I cannot take this
rubbish”, he added.
By the time the chaotic situation simmered
down some top workers in the hotel who came out much later, took the
aggrieved friends of the groom who came back from Malaysia, Indonesia
for a talk and probably to settle the issue. The friends of the groom
had threatened that they would shut down the hotel and sue the
management to court. Some tourists who were at the scene also
volunteered to broker peace amid the raging disagreement between friends
of the groom, bride and the Hotel management.
However, Vanguard
went further to get the reactions from the management of Concorde
Hotel, a lady who looks like a foreigner was introduced as the operation
manager of the Hotel but she refused to give her name. She walked out
on Vanguard reporter, after she said: ” This is not you’re business. I
have settled the issue. It is between me and my client.” Even when
Vanguard reporter pleaded with her to understand it was an Imo state
owned Hotel, and that standard should be maintained in dealing with
customers, she, however, snubbed and went her way.