25 year-old domestic servant admits killing Edo ex-governor’s mother
A 25-year-old house help, Dominion Okoro, has allegedly admitted to have killed the mother of former governor of Edo State.
Mrs. Maria Oredola Igbinedion, 85 and mother of former Governor Lucky Igbinedion who died on December 2, this year was reportedly killed by Miss Okro, a native of Calabar, Cross-River State.
Dominion on Thursday, opened up and said she hit the late woman with a stool on the head while trying to steal from her.
She disclosed this while being paraded by the Edo State Police Command alongside other crime suspects.
Dominion said she entered into into the late woman’s s room and made an attempt to steal her N100,000, gold necklaces and a wristwatch.
She said when she discovered that the deceased saw her while trying to steal the items and wanted to raise an alarm, she quickly hit her head with a stool and she died immediately.
Okoro who was housemaid to the deceased at the time, said that when she saw that she had died, she quickly took her belongings and ran to stay with her elder sister in Cross River State.
“I am here because I killed somebody. Nothing happened between us. Myself and my madam never had any quarrels. I have been with my madam for one year and three months before this thing happened”, she said.
When asked how much she stole, she said “I wanted to take her money from her drawer. It is only a N100,000 that I found in the drawer.
“I took her gold necklace and wristwatch and ran to stay with my elder sister in Cross River”, Okoro added.
The prime suspect’s (Dominion’s) elder sister, Patience, was first arrested by the police, before Dominion was later apprehended and moved to Benin for thorough investigation.
Patience Okoro said neither she nor their parents in Cross River State knew anything about the crime committed by Dominion.
Speaking, Edo State Commissioner of Police, Phillip Ogbadu, revealed that it took time, efforts and money to arrest Dominion, with no fewer than twenty persons first nabbed, before the prime suspect (Dominion) was arrested and she confessed to committing the crime.
