A woman has been st@bbed to d3ath by her househelp in the Gbagada area of Lagos State.
The incident happened at 29, Kiniun-Ifa Street, Sawmill, Gbagada, Lagos.
According to Vanguard, the lifeless body of the landlady was discovered by her son who came to visit her on March 9, 2024.
By this time, the househelp, identified as Peter, had fled the home.
A community member told the newspaper: “The woman’s son, upon arriving at the compound, went straight to his mother’s apartment only to find her lifeless body on the staircase, with blood all over. A long piece of wood suspected to be the murder weapon was also found. By then, the body has started swelling, suggesting that the woman might have been killed days before.”
The fleeing househelp is said to have resumed work a week before the tragedy occurred. It was further gathered that a relative of the agent that brought the fleeing househelp had been arrested as the unidentified agent was nowhere to be found.
The spokesperson of the Lagos State Police Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said the househelp had also been arrested and transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCIID, Panti, for investigation.
