Agnes Elue: killed by house boy

Police spokesman in Enugu state, Mr Ebere Amaraizu, on Wednesday said the deceased was hacked down with a pestle after she requested for the proper accounts of the sales made by the suspect, Joseph Ijeh, in her shop.

“The deceased, a proprietress of a bar, was allegedly killed by her manservant.

“The suspect escaped, leaving the dead body inside one of the rooms for some days before it was discovered and reported to police operatives,” it said.

Amaraizu said the suspect upon his arrest confessed to the crime.

“The suspect revealed that the request for him to render account by his mistress angered him.

“While the woman was waiting in the sitting room for the account to be rendered, the suspect hit her with pestle which caused her death,” he said.

Amaraizu said the same house boy went to a widow’s flat in the same compound and attempted to rape her.

He had gone to the widow demanding N2000 from her but before the widow could reply, he pounced on her and was stripping her when the alarm raised by the widow attracted the attention of the caretaker of the compound.

The caretaker promptly rushed to her rescue and dealt several blows on the boy while the widow also hit the boy with a pestle.

It was at this stage that people rushed and arrested the boy. He was taken upstairs to ‎report to his madam only to discover her decomposing body in her bedroom.

The police are not ruling out rape since the body of the woman was without clothes when it was found.

Elue was also an academic staff of the Federal Government College, Enugu‎ before her death. She was popularly known as “Nwanyi Maluogo” by neighbours because of her kind disposition.

*Additional reports by NAIJ.com