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Domestic Worker Sentenced To Death For Killing His Employer And Her Daughter In Lagos (Photos)

The Ikeja High Court on Monday, March 27, sentenced a domestic staff, Joseph Ogbu, to death by hanging for killing his 89-year-old employer, Ajoke John and her daughter, Oreoluwa John, 38, in Lagos, IGBERETV reports.

It was reported that the convict, who hails from Oju Local Govt Area of Benue State, brutally murdered the victims at their residence at Number 4 Ogunlana Drive in Surulere, on June 19, 2019, 24 hours after he was employed.

The defence counsel, Moses Enema, in his allocutus, prayed the court to have mercy on the convict.

However, the state counsel, Olarewaju Daud, urged the court to convict the defendant as charged.

Daud told the court that the convict committed the offences at 9:30 p.m. on Ogunlana Drive, Surulere, Lagos.

The prosecution submitted that the defendant killed Ms Oreoluwa by stabbing her. He said the defendant also robbed the deceased of her car, phones and Plasma TV while armed with a knife.

He also said the convict, armed with a knife, robbed the octogenarian of her Toyota Camry Saloon car with Registration No. FST 104 CW, LG plasma TV, motorway handset, Gionee handset, Nokia phone, i-Tel Phone and power bank.

The offence, the prosecutor said, contravened sections 222 and 297 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State (2015).

Justice Modupe Nicole-Clay held that the prosecution had sufficiently proven the three-count charge bordering on armed robbery and murder against the convict. Nicole-Clay held that the defendant confessed to the crime as he itted to living with the deceased and was the only witness of the incident.

"He killed Adejoke by strangling her and Oreoluwa by stabbing her to death. As the defence did not raise an objection to the issibility of the confessional statement, there is no doubt that the defendant confessed to the crimes.

“I have considered the evidence of the security guard, an Okada man, one Yahya Ibrahim, the house help and a police Inspector.

The defendant could not explain what he was doing with all the stolen items he was found with at about 2:00 a.m. on the date he was arrested.

“The court is satisfied with the total evidence to establish the guilt of the defendant.

“This court has found Joseph Ogbu guilty of these heinous crimes, and you are hereby sentenced to death by hanging. May God have mercy on your soul,”

The convict prayed the court for mercy. “The mama no die for my presence. I beg for mercy,” the convict cried in pidgin English.

https://igberetvnews.com/1441855/domestic-worker-sentenced-death-killing-employer-daughter-lagos-photos/

Cruel... so many Beasts in human form. Quite unfortunate the nose can’t perceive an evil even when they’re very close or live with us

Wickedness keeps increasing instead of decreasing, why?

Tie him to a trailer and drag him on the ground

Bunch of miscreants

Same Benue people who repeated voting Apc into government will know no peace

After putting us into mess
Then they will run away from Benue to lagos looking for a good life

Give them pvc now they will repeat it again Same thing with northerners..
I swear no pity from me to them anymore

Wicked soul

Evil people plenty sha

My brother sometimes to dey help people nowadays he get as he be. Nigeria as a country get as he be

stupid people bringing a stranger into your home. Is it laziness ? No stranger in my house ooo. I do everything by myself. My cooking gas has finished now, I am about to carry the cylinder by myself . I no lazy. I go carry the cylinder inside boot lol. Don't trust nobody. Streetz is red. No joy . Sweep my floor myself, wash my car myself, cook my food myself, empty my dustbin myself, dust my house myself, am I crippled ? Are my two hands not working ?

If I have a mother who is 84 years old or a grandmother of 84 years old I will not employ a man as houseboy . It’s sad she was killed, she could also be raped if the house is quiet. They should have employed a middle aged woman, someone in late 40s. This category will sometimes steal especially foods but the grandma would be alive up until now maybe.


Condolences to the family of the deceased .

Kai. It is well. He should be hanged by the balls.

If you can do without Domestic Workers, please do.


E get why.

CodeTemplar:
John Ogbu comes to Lagos and didn't Okafor the landlord with so much money to target but killed Ajoke the poor local tenant, yet Ogbu and Okafor's kinsmen are unremorseful about this Lagos pattern.

When they say READ READ READ
Una no dey ever get sense
Your papa just waste all him money to send you to school.
It will take only 1 minute to read
If na to watch 5 mins comedy skit, na there Dem go see you. But to read for 1 minute dey hard una.
Bunch of illiterates,better go refund your papa all the money he wasted on your school fees.

It was reported that the convict, who hails from Oju Local Govt Area of Benue State, brutally murdered the victims at their residence

From the look of his face, you can tell he is dangerous

John Ogbu comes to Lagos and didn't see Okafor the landlord with so much money to target but killed Ajoke the poor local tenant, yet Ogbu and Okafor's kinsmen are unremorseful about this Lagos pattern.

It's already planned before now


He made use of the job opportunity to execute his mission

I think say they have carried out the sentence already, what are they waiting for.
Look at his eyes if you pity him as he is pleading for mercy he will do more, he may have committed similar crimes before this one that he was caught

Lagos is a no go area

May God have mercy upon us.

It could be madness or frustration

Haa. This one came to kill , he didn't come to work

Terrible

Igbos chai

People should do well to avoid domestic staff if possible

Xscape1993:
Wickedness keeps increasing instead of decreasing, why?

The more increase in population, the more tendencies of wickedness, especially in barbaric societies like ours🥺