AS SHE DECLINED HIS ADVANCES, A SECURITY OFFICER IN LAGOS WAS DETAINED FOR KILLING A HOUSEKEEPER.

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 murdered in her bedroom by the suspect in the same house they both work & live in at Country Home Estate in the Lekki region of Lagos, according to Benjamin Hundeyin, the command’s spokesman, who gave press confirmation of the development on March 12, 2023.

The suspect’s cutlass was found with blood on it, according to the PPRO. He claimed that the cutlass and the suspect, who had admitted to the crime, had been brought to the State Criminal Investigation Department’s Panti homicide branch for further inquiry.

According to reports, the defendant approached the victim and when she rejected him, he became enraged, took up a cutlass, and knocked her to death. After he killed her, he made an attempt to flee but was stopped by neighbors.