Mohammed Shosanya
A teenage house help,has stabbed her mistress,Funmilayo Adeluyi,to death in her sleep in Ondo State.
Funmilayo was seen last in her office, Ministry of Finance in Akure, Ondo State capital on Wednesday last week accompanied by her teenager house help.
When some people living in the neighborhood at Oda Town, Akure, could not see her, they came to look for her, but her house help would rush to the gate to tell them she was not around despite her car being packed in the compound.
But on Sunday,when residents began to perceive a pungent stench from the compound, they informed the police and the gate and door of her 3-bedroom bungalow along Superjet Road, Premier Estate, off Oda Road in Ondo Town were forced open.
On entering the house,the stench became stronger and Funmilayo was found in her full dress and shoes she wore on Wednesday when she attended the inauguration of new permanent secretaries in the state on Wednesday.
She lay in her pool of blood in her living room but her body had began to decompose, showing that she had died few days earlier.
It was discovered that the gate to the house was locked with a padlock from outside.
Neighbours,who spoke with newsmen,disclosed that the deceased lived alone with with her teenager house help simply identified as Wumi.
They revealed that the house help sometimes ago had mental problems and had medical treatments severally. She was said have been withdrawn from her school, Fiwasaye Girls’ Grammar School, Akure, when her condition assumed a serious dimension.
She’s currently in SSS2 in a private school where Funmilayo got her enrolled later.
According to one of the sources who preferred anonymity,she was advised to take the girl to her parents because of the issue, but she refused perhaps because she felt the treatment she gave her would be enough.
Another eyewitness, who saw the deceased’s remains , revealed that she was stabbed in the belly region.
He said: “You can see blood everywhere from her bedroom to the living room as she struggled to get out and find help, but because the doors were shut against her she could not make it.
“The knife her attacker used to kill her was found beside her. This is really very sad.”
Confirming the incident, the spokesperson for the state Police Command, Funmilayo Odunlami-Omisanya, a Superintendent of Police(SP), said the case is under investigation.