A domestic servant has allegedly killed his employer with a pestle in Awka, Anambra State capital.
The deceased, Chima Anolue, a lecturer at the
Psychology Department at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, was attacked with
the pestle when a fight ensued between him and the domestic servant.
It was gathered that the incident happened on
Friday night, July 14, 2023, at Ifite
village in Awka.
The suspect was also said to have bruised the
deceased’s body with a knife after he became unconscious to make it look as if
he was attacked by a third party, Punch reported.
According to sources, the suspect was
captured by the local security and confessed to repeatedly hitting his late
boss with a pestle after he asked him why he hadn't done his household duties.
However, when he refused to answer, Chima
slapped him, which led to a fight, where he later fatally attacked his boss.
“When he came back, he told me to cook rice.
And as I was cooking the rice, he asked me why I did not wash plates. I did not
reply. He then asked why I wasn’t responding to his question,” the suspect
said.
“In the process, he slapped me. But I told
him I usually have ear problems, and that people don’t slap me. As I was saying
that, he angrily asked if I was still talking while he was talking. And
therefore, he slapped me again and brought out cane and started flogging me all
over,”
"Then in the process, I got angry, and
we started fighting. It was also in the process of that fight that I picked up
the pestle in the kitchen and hit him on the head.”
During interrogation, the suspect who first
denied killing his master, later confessed to the crime after he was thoroughly
beaten when his moves became suspicious.
A family source said, “While friends and
relatives of the deceased were taking him to the hospital that night for
medical attention after the encounter, the suspect was attempting to choke him
to death right inside the vehicle where he was sitting close to him allegedly
to conceal his atrocious acts. It was in the process that we discovered what
was going on and therefore we started suspecting him. As that was going on
also, the victim who was still alive then, used his last strength to mention
the suspect’s name, before he finally gave up the ghost,"
"In his confessions, the suspect first
said that it was the girlfriend of the deceased who visited him that night that
attacked him. However, he eventually confessed that he was the person who
killed him with a pestle.”
The suspect, said to be from the Abakaliki
area of Ebonyi State, has since been handed over to the Nigerian Police Force,
Awka division, for further questioning, while the corpse of the deceased Chima
has been deposited at the morgue for autopsy.
Meanwhile, friends and colleagues have taken
to Facebook to mourn him.
“Chima was my brother. A wonderful chorister
and a fine choir leader. He comes from one of the finest family in Igboukwu,
his parents have loved me like their son right from my days as an
undergraduate,” one Arinze wrote.
Chima my brother went viral yesterday not
because of all the fine virtues bestowed upon him by God…
But because he was gruesomely mvrdered by his
househelp just because my brother scolded him for letting the food on fire get
burnt.
Not once, not twice but three times this
animal hit Chima with a pestle on his skull.….Chima wasn’t kidnapped, he didn’t
have a road accident neither did he die in his sleep.
His beautiful young and promising life was
cut short right inside his home by a person he housed, clothed, fed and paid. I
don’t know how I feel or have felt since yesterday.
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