Domestic servant murders UniZik lecturer with pestle

There was pandemonium at Ifite, Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State, Friday night as a yet-to-be-identified domestic servant hit his master to death with a pestle.

Freedom-square gathered that the deceased identified as Chima Anolue, was a Lecturer in Psychology Department, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka Anambra State.

The deceased was murdered during a fight with his servant.

This was corroborated by videos currently trending on the social media, which show the suspect as he confessed to have truly killed the lecturer with a pestle.

The suspect in his confessional statement 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 him anything. And then, he further asked why I wasn’t responding to his question.

“In the process, he slapped me. I told him I usually have ear problem, and that people don’t slap me. As I was saying that, he angrily asked if I was still talking while he was talking. He slapped me again, and brought out a cane and start 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 also confessed to have hit Chima with the pestle up to three times before he stopped, after he had fallen on the ground in the pool of blood.

The video shows the deceased lying lifeless in the hospital bed, while his bereaved relatives gathered to behold and mourn him, alongside his friends and some hospital officials who were also interrogating the suspect.

It was gathered that the suspect initially denied knowing anything about Chima’s death, but eventually confessed to the crime after he was tortured by the doctor on duty at the hospital that night.

“In one of his confessions, he first said that it was the girlfriend of the deceased who visited him that night that attacked him. However after some more tortures, he eventually confessed that he was the person who killed Chima with pestle.

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It was equally gathered that the suspect, who hails from Abakaliki in neighbouring Ebonyi State, bruised the deceased’s body with knife after hitting him to unconsciousness state, so as to make it appear as if he was attacked by a third party.