.A heartless artisan has brutally smashed a doctor's head with a motor vehicle iron over disagreement to pay money for work he did.
.A heartless man has brutally murdered a medical doctor by using a motor vehicle iron to smash her head. The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested the artisan identified as Henry Silas, 28, for allegedly murdering a pathologist, Dr. Ivy Umana, of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, at her home in Shelter Afrique, Uyo.
It was gathered that the doctor was to supervise undergraduate medical students on the day she was murdered.
After trying to reach her without success, a senior colleague, Dr. Festus Abasiubong, received a text message from Umana’s phone requesting that the sum of N20, 000 should be given to Silas.
That prompted them to visit the Umana's house only to get the shock of their lives. They found her lifeless body in the house.
Shedding more light on what happened, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Cordelia Nwawe, said on Monday that the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Murtala Mani, is working hard to arrest all those involved in the murder.
The CP said, “That the said Silas confessed to the crime and stated that he used motor vehicle iron to hit the deceased on her head which caused her death.
“He claimed that the killing was as a result of the disagreement he had with the deceased over payment of N100,000, which he used in buying materials, including money charged for the work.
“That Dr. Festus Abasiubong, also of the UUTH, was the person who introduced him to the deceased to do work for her. That sometime last year (2015), he did designing work in Dr. Festus Abasiubong’s house at Ikot Ntuen village along Abak Road, Uyo.”
Mani revealed further that Silas stated that he sent a message to Abasiubong’s cell phone requesting N20,000 as to create confusion about the whereabouts of the deceased and to divert the attention of her colleagues.
Silas said “I was the one that killed her. We had an agreement on a job, which required that I use my money to start. She asked me to start the job that as soon as I start, she would give me the money. I started the job on Monday. I bought materials and she said that when she returned from office, she would give me the money.
“When I was about leaving the site, I called her, and she said that she was not coming back to the site that day. So, I left, I later called her on Tuesday, in which she asked me to come back on Wednesday morning.
“I went there on Wednesday at 7:30am. I waited for her for a long time to come out and open the gate for me. She later opened the gate for me after I repeatedly knocked at the gate.
“She started complaining that I was disturbing her. She was behaving as if she was not going to pay me for the job. And I asked her why she was behaving as if she was not going to pay me.
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