A yet-to-be-identified domestic helper in Anambra has reportedly killed his master, a lecturer at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, after hitting him with a pestle during an argument.
The deceased, who was identified as a lecturer in the Psychology Department of the institution, was fatally assaulted with a pestle during a physical altercation with the domestic servant.
The incident occurred on Friday night in Ifite village, located in Awka, the capital of Anambra State.
A video circulating on social media depicts the suspect confessing to the murder of the lecturer using a pestle.
The perpetrator admitted to hitting the victim with the pestle three or four times before he collapsed on the ground.
He said, “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.
“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 Cain 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.”
The suspect initially denied killing his master during questioning, but after being severely thrashed when his movements were noticed as suspicious, he later confessed to the crime.
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.”
In order to make it appear as though the dead was attacked by a third party, the suspect is also accused of stabbing him unconscious and then bruising his body with a knife.
State police spokesperson DSP Tochukwu Ikenga was approached about the development and stated there was no record of the occurrence before him, but that he would make inquiries from the command where the incident happened and get back to reporters.
