Nigeria: Domestic worker kills his employer with pestle

By Amina Hilda

A domestic worker is reported to have killed his employer in Anambra State, Nigeria, with the help of a pestle.

According to reports, the employer, known as Chima Anolue, was a lecturer at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State.

In a viral video, the unidentified domestic worker could be seen confessing in Igbo to an angry mob while lying on the ground with tied hands.

He said, “I was cooking the rice, and 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.”

He went on, “As I was saying that, he angrily asked why I was interrupting him, and he slapped me again. I got angry and we started fighting. “

According to the domestic worker, his master later overpowered him.” I looked around and saw a pestle, which I used in hitting him. I struck him three times with the pestle and stopped after he started bleeding,” he confessed.

Reacting to the killing on Facebook, Chima Uzoagu, described the deceased as his brother and said the houseboy killed him because he was scolded for burning the food he was cooking.

“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.

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 their 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 they housed, clothed, fed and paid.

I don’t know how I feel or have felt since yesterday”

Uzoagu wrote on Facebook

An investigation is still ongoing to identify the real circumstances surrounding the tragic incident.

Meanwhile, the suspect has been placed in police custody.