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.