A domestic employees of Aribemchukwu, the slain daughter of Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, has confessed to being involved in the murder of her boss, a police source disclosed on Thursday.
According to a family source Aribemchukwu was murdered on Tuesday night, but her lifeless body was discovered on Wednesday morning outside the gate of her residence.
Her three domestic employees, which included the house help, a security guard, and a driver, were, however, arrested in connection to the murder.
Giving updates on the findings made so far, a police source who pleaded anonymity as he was not authorised to speak on the matter said the house help confessed to the crime during interrogation.
The suspects who have since been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Panti, Yaba, were said to have planned to rob the residence right after they were employed.
The trio were said to have been walked in on by the deceased as they were robbing the house and they killed her.
The source also clarified that the deceased was killed inside her room, and thereafter her body was dragged from the spot outside the gate where it was found.
According to the source, the suspects attempted to clean up the blood stains but missed some spots because the act was carried out at night.
“The deceased was killed in her room and her body was dragged to the front of the gate to make it look like she was killed on the spot. After that, all the blood stains were carefully cleaned but still, they missed some spots. They did not clean it well because it happened at night.
“The house help did not deny what happened. She said, ‘We do am, na we do am’, during an interrogation and everything she said tallied with the evidence on the ground.” the police source disclosed.
The suspects were also said to have immediately packed all the valuables of the deceased after killing their employer.
The source further confirmed that the three domestic workers were employed at the same time a week before the incident.
Until her death, the late Aribemchukwu was a doctor and had recently married.
When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, said investigations were still ongoing.
He said, “Investigations are still ongoing on the incident. We will provide updates as soon as there are more developments.”
The deceased was a medical doctor. Her father is the younger brother of Odein Ajumogobia, a former minister of state for petroleum resources and later minister of foreign affairs.
