20 year-old Onitsha house maid hacked to death for
refusing sex with boss’s son
A 20-year old house maid, Chioma
Onyegili, was hacked to death yesterday by a 31-year-old son of her madam,
Okechukwu (surname withheld), for refusing to have sex with him in Onitsha,
Anambra state.
The incident occurred at about 9.30
pm Wednesday at 56 Ziks Avenue Fegge, Onitsha, when the suspect now in
police custody used a cutlas to kill the maid for refusing to accept his
advances.
Daily Sun gathered that the deceased
girl was living with the 70-year-old mother of the accused who always
demanded that the girl sleep with him, which she always resisted. He thereafter
slashed the girl on her neck with a machete.
The Divisional Police Officer in
charge of Fegge Police Station, Mr. Rabui Garba, a Superintendent of Police who
confirmed the incident, said that when the information reached his office he
dispatched a team of detectives who swung into action and arrested the culprit.
He said that the suspect would be
transferred to State Investigation Department (CID) for further investigation
on the matter while the deceased corpse has been deposited to an undisclosed
hospital mortuary in Onitsha.
The suspect had confessed to the
crime, saying that he had killed some other persons in the past in a
similar manner. He claimed that he did not not what pushed him to kill the
girl, hinting that he may have been hardened by his past murders.
It would be recalled that two days
ago, a woman in Okpoko (Ogbaru LGA of the state) was arrested for using a
kitchen knife to inflict injuries on a maid’s private part for
frequent night urinating.
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