“As I Was Killing Lucky Igbinedion’s Mother, She Was Shouting For Help” – Housemaid

By Adesina Soyooye

From the Housemaid from hell who killed Mrs Maria Oredola, former Governor Lucky Igbinedion’s mother, came a chilling confession of how she carried out the heinous crime.

Cross Rivers State born Dominion Okoro, 25, was hired as a Housemaid for the 85 year-old Mrs Igbinedion. But on December 2, 2021, she killed her, searched the house, took all her money and jewelries, and disappeared into thin air.

But last week, she was arrested in Calabar by a combined team of security operatives from Benin.

Telling the blood-cuddling story of how she murdered Mrs Igbinedion in her GRA home,  at the Edo State Police Command Headquarters on being paraded, Okoro said that she used a stool, at an uncivilised time of 12.01am, to hit, ferociously, on the woman,  while she slept in her bed in her room.

She said as she continued to hit her, Mrs Igbinedion was shouting for help. But there was no help from anybody as there was nobody else in the house, and the gateman who was at his duty Post did not, allegedly, hear the woman shouting.

She said she watched her boss die, and waited till 4.00am before leaving the house with her loot – the sum of N100,000, (One Hundred thousand Naira) a wrist watch, and jewelries. She escaped to her hometown, Calabar,  until her arrest. She also added that the late Mrs Igbinedion, who, for a couple of years, had been condemned to the wheelchair, did her no wrong before she decided to kill her.

Edo State Police Commissioner, Philip Ogbadu, said it took planning, time and money to arrest the Housemaid.

First to be arrested was her elder sister, Patience Okoro, who said neither she, nor their parents, knew anything about the heinous crime her sister committed.

Altogether, 20 people were arrested in connection with the gruesome murder. What has not been explained is the role, if any, played by the gateman. The questions are: Where was he when the Housemaid left the house by 4.00am? Where did she tell him she was going to at that time, especially, as she did not leave empty-handed?

CP Ogbadu said the suspects will be charged to Court after investigations.

Mrs Igbinedion was the wife of Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, the Esama of Benin. She was buried on December 10, 2021.