The police in Ondo state have arrested 30-year-old Blessing Jimoh, pictured above, for allegedly killing her mother, Ijeoma Odo.
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Blessing was paraded before newsmen at the state police command today March 29. She told the newsmen that she killed her mother with a cutlass after a Pastor told her that she was a witch and was behind all her predicaments in life.
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Blessing and her mother were on a farm in Ile-Iluiji area of the state when she used a cutlass to hack her to death.
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The suspect who claimed she was mentally unstable when she carried out the crime, said
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“It was something doing me that make me kill my mother. I am not happy with what I did.
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“I cut her neck with a cutlass. It was a Pastor that said she was witch and l went to beg her. My mother is from Enugu State. We have been looking for the Pastor but we have not seen him.”she said
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Confirming her arrest, the state Commissioner of Police, Bolaji Salami, said the suspect would soon be charged to court as soon as investigation into the matter is concluded.
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