Crime
Security Guard Arrested For Alleged Murder Of House Help For Refusing His Advances
The 24-year-old security guard Barnabas Job has been detained in connection with the suspected murder of Thereza Ekibi, a 26-year-old housekeeper, according to the Lagos State Police Command.
The housemaid was allegedly slain in her bedroom by the suspect at the same house they both work and live at Country Home Estate in the Lekki region of Lagos, according to Benjamin Hundeyin, the command’s spokesman, who gave journalists the update on Sunday, March 12, 2023.
The PPRO claims that the suspect’s cutlass was found with a bloodstain on it.
He said that the suspect, who confessed to the crime, had been taken to the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, alongside the cutlass for investigation.
It was further gathered that the suspect tried to woo the victim but when she turned him down, he became angry, picked a cutlass and hacked her to death.
He attempted to escape after killing her but was held by neighbours, who then contacted the police at Ikota Division.
The deceased was said to hail from Wanikade town in Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State and took up the job as a house help before she was murdered on March 5, 2023.
