A yet-to-be-identified houseboy reportedly killed his employer, a lecturer at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, after hitting him with a pestle during an argument.

The deceased identified simply as Chima, said to be a lecturer at the Psychology Department of the institution, was attacked with the pestle when a fight ensued between him and his 17yr-old born Abakaliki houseboy.

Wakadaily learnt that the sad incident happened on Friday night at Ifite village in Awka, the Anambra State capital.

In a circulating video on social media, the suspect confessed to hitting his boss with a pestle three times.

The teenage boy said: “When he came back, he told me to cook rice. And as I was cooking the rice, he asked me why I did not wash plates. I did not reply. He then asked why I wasn’t responding to his question.

“In the process, he slapped me. But I told him I usually have ear problems, and that people don’t slap me. As I was saying that, he angrily asked if I was still talking while he was talking. And therefore, he slapped me again and brought out Cain and started flogging me all over.

Then in the process, I got angry, and we started fighting. It was also in the process of that fight that I picked up the pestle in the kitchen and hit him on the head.”

A family source said, “While friends and relatives of the deceased were taking him to the hospital that night for medical attention after the encounter, the suspect was attempting to choke him to death right inside the vehicle where he was sitting close to him allegedly to conceal his atrocious acts.

“It was in the process that we discovered what was going on and therefore we started suspecting him. As that was going on also, the victim who was still alive then, used his last strength to mention the suspect’s name, before he finally gave up the ghost.

“In his confessions, the suspect first said that it was the girlfriend of the deceased who visited him that night that attacked him. However, he eventually confessed that he was the person who killed him with a pestle.”

The suspect has been handed over to men of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF), Awka division for investigation and possible prosecution while the Chima’s remains have been deposited at the morgue for autopsy.