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  • Web designer arrested for defiling maid

    The  Police in Ogun State have arrested an Abeokuta based website designer,  Abiodun Amosu(42 ), for defiling his 16 year old housemaid.
    Amosu who lives at  the Ibara housing Estate  was said to have dragged the girl into his bedroom last Thursday while his wife was away in Lagos  and allegedly defiled her.
    The Police Public Relations Officer in Ogun state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, on Sunday, stated that the suspect was arrested following a complaint  at the Ibara Police division by the Benue state born  victim, who was accompanied to the station by a member of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR).
    The victim told the Police that Amosu forcefully dragged her into his bedroom and sexually assaulted her, and even when she was shouting after the man has had his way,  he still beat her up and sent her away.
    According to the Police Spokesman, a CDHR member who sighted the victim in her pitiable condition,  took her to the Police station to report the incident.
    “Upon the report, the DPO Ibara division, Dada Olusegun, led detectives to the scene where the randy suspect was arrested. On interrogation, the suspect initially denied the allegation, but when confronted with the blood stained bed sheet in his bedroom, he admitted to the commission of the offence.
    “The victim who claimed to be a virgin before the incident has been taken to general hospital for medical attention and the medical report has confirmed that the victim was actually sexually abused,” Oyeyemi stated.
    He explained that the  Police commissioner, Ahmed Iliyasu, has directed that the case be transferred to the anti – human trafficking and child labour unit of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for proper investigation and prosecution of the suspect.

  • Pastor held for ‘sexually assaulting’ maid, 17

    The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NATIP) yesterday paraded a 43-year–old Pastor Philip ‘Prince’ Olatunbosun for sexually harassing his 17-year-old house maid.

    The suspect, who hails from Ondo State, was paraded along four other suspects for alleged human trafficking and rape.

    The pastor, according to the agency, usually sneaked into the victim’s room and fondled her breasts and other genitals.

    NAPTIP’s Director-General, Julie Okah-Donli, who addressed reporters in Abuja, said the parade of the suspects was in line with its ‘name and shame’ strategy to end the twin menace.

    Represented by the agency’s Director of Investigation and Monitoring, Mr Josiah Emerole, the NAPTIP chief said the agency would continue to go after traffickers until it makes the “country a safe place for the people”.

    She said: “Three of the cases have to do with rape and sexual violations against minors, which are serious offences punishable under the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act (VAPPA) 2015.

    “The other two are attempts by two suspects to traffic or smuggle other Nigerians out of the country, using fraudulent means, contrary to the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act, 2015.”

    The NAPTIP chief urged parents, especially mothers, to pay closer attention to their daughters because of increasing cases and spate of rape in the country.

    Okah-Donli said: “To those out there who now take delight in destroying the lives of the girl-child because of their uncontrollable sexual appetite, NAPTIP will no longer allow this to thrive.

    “For the traffickers, NAPTIP will continue to go after them until we make the country a safe place for the people.”

    Also, a 27-year-old taxi driver, James Eberechukwu Osuji, from Imo State and resident of Abuja, was paraded for allegedly luring a 17-year-old girl to his house and camping her for three days – August 2 till August 4. He was said to have drugged the victim and sexually violated her for the period.

    Also paraded for alleged rape and sexual offences was a 31-year-old chef, Innocent Etim, from Akwa Ibom State and resident of Abuja.

    He was arrested for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl whose mother provided him cooking assistance whenever he had a catering contract.

    Paraded for alleged human trafficking offences was Mr Abiona David Oluwafemi Tobi, said to be a man of various personalities.

    The suspect was accused of using the letter heads of the Federal Ministry of Health (Office of the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Healthcare) to send letters to someone in Finland under the pretext that he was the Director of Policy, Planning, Research and Strategy in the ministry.

    NAPTIP said he allegedly attempted to traffic 12 persons to Finland under the guise of embarking on a study tour of health facilities.

    The suspect, according to other letters, claimed to be of the Hospitals Management Board of the Ogun State government, Office of the Ogun State Governor and the Director, Finance and Accounts of the hospitals board.

    Also arraigned was a 33-year-old mother of three, Asia Rita, for allegedly trafficking seven persons to Libya.

    She and the suspected victims were reportedly intercepted by officers of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) in Katsina and transferred to NAPTIP on August 29 by the NIS headquarters.

    Okah-Donli said: “We are grateful to the NIS for this collaborative effort. Investigations are still ongoing on this case.”

  • ‘My husband sleeps with my maid’

    A 36-year-old trader, Mrs Florence Anyasi, yesterday told a Customary Court in Igando, Lagos, to dissolve her 10-year-old marriage because her husband, Staley, is a chronic womaniser.

    She also claimed that he sneaks into their maid’s room to sleep with her.

    “My husband is a womaniser, he used to leave me in the bed at night and sneak into my maid’s room. I have caught him severally on my maid’s bed sexually assaulting her. A neighbour approached me and told me to warn my husband to desist from asking her daughter to have love affair with him.

    “I once caught him sucking the breasts of my niece, who is a minor and he is also fond of wooing my friends,” the mother of three said as she reeled out her grievances before the court,” she said.

    Anyasi also accused her husband of threatening her life.

    “My husband always tells me that he will get rid of me and had once succeeded in poisoning me.

    “He bought food for me and after eating, I started having serious pain and vomiting, I was rushed to the hospital by neighbours; when I was diagnosed, it was detected that the food I just ate had been poisoned.”

    The petitioner said her husband also turned her into a punching bag, beating her at the slightest provocation, she added that he calls her thief and prostitute in public.

    The woman said her husband was irresponsible, adding that he cannot provide for the family nor pay the children’s school fees.

    The defendant denied the allegations and accused his wife of adultery. He claimed that her lover even bought her a car.

    “In January 2017 she came home with a car of N1 million, when I queried her where she got the car from, she claimed she bought it with her money.

    “I strongly disagreed with her because she is only selling foodstuffs and can never afford that kind of a car.”

    The 40-year-old businessman said his wife packed out of their matrimonial home in 2017 without his knowledge.

    “I came home from work and discovered that my wife had packed all her belonging out with the children to start living with her lover.

    “I called her severally, she refused to pick but she eventually picked my call last January and informed me that our last baby she delivered in May 2017 was not mine that the child belonged to the man she is presently living with.

    “Before she even gave birth and packed out of my house, I always received information from people that they saw my wife in hotel with men but I always ignored them.”

    Stanley said he provided for his family and also paid his children’s school fees.

    He said he beat her once when she stabbed him with bottle on the head.

    The respondent said he too was no longer interested in the marriage and consented to its dissolution.

    The court president, Mr Akin Akinniyi, admonished the couple to maintain peace and fixed July 3, for judgment.

  • Maid stabs, strangles five-year-old boy

    An 11-year-old house help on Friday appeared before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly killing a five-year-old boy, Chikaso Amazu.

    The suspect allegedly stabbed and strangled the victim.

    The suspect’s plea was not taken by the court.

    Chief Magistrate Ipaye-Nwachukwu ordered that the accused be taken to the Girl’s Correctional Home in Idi Araba, Lagos.

    The police prosecutor, Insp. Chinalu Uwadione, told the court that the accused committed the offence at 6:30 p.m. on March 10, at Plot 702, Road 255, Abule-Ado, Festac.

    He said the accused strangled the victim who was under her care with a leather belt before stabbing him with a curtain rod on his private part which resulted in his death.

    The offences contravened Section 223 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 and punishable under same.

    The case was adjourned till April 18 pending legal advice from the State Director of Public Prosecutions.

  • Chef gets six months for abducting maid

    Chef gets six months for abducting maid

    A Karmo Area Court in Abuja yesterday sentenced a chef, Marcel Gouta, to six months’ imprisonment for abducting a house-help.

    Gouta,  of Mpape village, Abuja, was convicted on a one count charge of abduction.

    He pleaded guilty and begged the court for leniency.

    The Judge, Abubakar Sadiq, however, gave the convict an option of N20, 000 fine.

    Sadiq said the punishment would have been stiffer, if the convict had not saved the court the pains of a protracted prosecution.

    He warned him to be of good behaviour.

    The prosecutor, Dalhatu Zannah, told the court that on February 18, Okougbegun Boroni, of Yhuguttle Estate, Utako, Abuja, reported the matter at Utako Police Station.

    He said on February 17, about 9 am, the complainant sent her house-help to Mararaba in Nassarawa State to invite her mother to her school.

    Zannah said the convict formed a criminal intention and took the house-help to Mpape without the consent of the complainant.

    He added that the convict was subsequently arrested and during police investigation he made a confessional statement.

    The prosecutor said the offence contravened Section 387 of the Penal Code.

  • Policeman shoots wife, maid, kills self in Nasarawa

    Policeman shoots wife, maid, kills self in Nasarawa

    Nasarawa State Police Command said on Sunday that a policeman, Sgt. Thomas Agada, had in the early hours of the day, shot and killed himself at Masaka in Karu Local Government Area of the state.
    The command’s spokesman, DSP Kennedy Idirisu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lafia that late Agada served at the Police command in the FCT, but resided at Masaka, where the incident occurred.

    Idirisu explained that before killing himself, the deceased had shot and injured his wife and maid at their shop around De Memories Hotel in Masaka.

    He said the wife and maid were currently receiving treatment at the Asokoro General Hospital in the FCT, adding that investigation had begun to ascertain the motive behind the shooting.

    “We cannot say for sure now what could have led to the dastardly act but we believe that the wife, currently being treated would, be of great help to our investigation, once she stabilises,” Idirisu said. (NAN)

  • Maid, 18, charged with attempt to kidnap boss

    An 18-year-old housekeeper, Evelyn Angese, has been arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court for allegedly attempting to kidnap her boss for N5 million ransom.
    Angese, whose address was not given, was arraigned by the Zone 2 Police Command, Lagos before Magistrate O. M. Ajayi.
    She is standing trial on a five-count charge of conspiracy, attempted kidnap, threat to life and demanding for ransom money.
    Prosecuting Sergeant Tubi Olajide told the court that the defendant with others at large, committed the offence last August 22, at 32a, Balogun Street, Lagos Island.
    Olajide said they threatened to kill one Mrs Uche Onwuka and her children “without any reasonable cause,” and also attempted to kidnap her and her family.
    “Angese and her accomplices also demanded with menace, the ransom of N5million to be paid into her Access Bank account no. 0694219782 and another Access Bank account no. 0036554252, belonging to one Samuel Ayodele.
    “They sent text messages to Onwuka’s phone, threatening to kill her and her chidren,” the prosecutor said.
    According to him, the offence contravened Sections 56, 230, 299, 404 and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
    The defendant pleaded not guilty.
    Magistrate Ajayi granted her N500,000 bail with two sureties in the like sum and adjourned the case till March 1.

  • 8 year-old maid’s palms burnt over piece of meat

    A 35 year old staff of the National Examination Council, is being quizzed by the Niger state Child Right Protection Agency for burning with hot charcoal the palms of her eight- year old house-maid, accused of stealing meat from the pot.

    The Director-General of the agency, Mrs Mariam Kolo, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna on Saturday, said the accused, identified as Grace Edeh is a staff of NECO). The married woman has three children of her own and is right now, breast-feeding one of them.

    She said that the mother of three was arrested by the staff of the Minna branch of the National Human Rights Commission and later brought to the agency.

    She said that a good samaritan had seen the girl’s burnt hands and scars on her thigh in the market and interrogated her. The maid led the woman to her boss’s house.

    Mariam Kolo said that the matter was reported to the National Human Rights Commission, which transferred the case to Kolo’s agency.

    Kolo said that the offence contravenes Section 26 of the Child’s Right Act and warned parents and guardians against maltreating children.

    For now, the contrite Grace Edeh may get a slap on the wrist for the offence as she has begged Niger state Child Right Protection Agency for leniency. She pleaded she should be saved from being docked in the court as she is a nursing mother.

    The agency has consequently ordered her to give medicare to her eight-year old victim of bestiality.

    The eight year-old housemaid would attend the counselling unit of the agency in the next few weeks and would later be reunited with her biological parents.

    Edeh had told the agency that she ill-treated the girl out of anger as she was fond of stealing meat from the pot of soup.

    She said that the girl was also caught stealing meat from the neighbour’s kitchen. (NAN)

  • Raised by a maid? Your child may be disadvantaged

    Highly-mobile parents have been warned that their wards may be disadvantaged intellectually despite their education and status.

    The claim is the result of a research that Mrs Dolapo Ogunbanwo shared at a parenting workshop organised by Caleb group of schools and Sterling Bank Plc in Lagos.

    Mrs Ogunbanwo, who is the Executive Director of the schools, spoke on “Understanding Developmental Stages: What Parents must do to Maximise Potential”, said the 2007 research conducted in the United States, revealed that factors such as social economic status, parental influence, mother’s education, single parentage, month of birth, gender, special needs, and income could affect how successful a child would become.

    She said the research also revealed that it would take black African children until 2053 to catch up with their white counterparts.

    In light of the research, which Mrs Ogunbanwo said she was a part of, she warned educated parents not to think that their wards are more privileged than others as they may be adversely affected by the influence of domestic workers raising them.

    “You may think that you are educated; and have a good income; but the maid raising your children between zero and three years have issues if you don’t, and can influence your children,” she said.

    The educationist urged the parents, who numbered about 600 to do their part to ensure that their wards turn out to be high achievers.

    She said children who are high achievers have high aspirations, self belief, positive can-do attitude, focus, and seek to learn from experience.

    She also said parents should allow their wards to fail and learn from their failures.

    “You can learn from your failure.  You need to teach your children to stop, think about what worked well, and what they can do differently.  Do not let your children be afraid of failing because when afraid of risk, they won’t do anything,” she said.

    Speaking on why the bank supported the workshop, Mrs Olapeju Ibekwe, Head of Brands, Sterling Bank said with parenting not taught as part of formal education, parents need all the help they can get to raise children who will turn out to be good members of the society.

    She said: “We understand that the economy is in such a situation where definitely parents need to be engaged economically to be able to meet the needs of the home.  But this should not be at the expense of raising the leaders of tomorrow.  There has to be a very fine balance to ensure that we do not go ahead and start raising miscreants, people that will become cultists and thieves.”

    Mrs Ibekwe said the bank supports educational initiatives because of the importance of the education to societal development.  She urged parents and schools to take advantage of various services they can enjoy from the bank.

    “We are supporting the schools because we have a very wholesome value chain initiative and impact we want to make upon the schools.  We do school fees finance, we do asset acquisition for schools; we support the educational institutions,” she said.

     

  • Ugandan maid gets four-year jail term

    Ugandan maid gets four-year jail term

    The Ugandan maid, who was secretly recorded for assaulting a toddler, has been sentenced to four years imprisonment, in a case that sparked national and global outrage.

    22year-old Jolly Tumuhirwe was filmed beating, kicking and stamping on the 18-month-old child.

    Last Friday, she confessed to torturing the toddler and disclosed that the attack was revenge of being beaten by the child’s mother; an allegation the mother of the toddler denied.

    Thus, earlier charges of torture were dropped.

    Chief Magistrate Lillian Buchan told Tumuhirwe she had committed an “unjustifiable and inexcusable” crime.

    She said the sentence was appropriate in light of the “ruthlessness exhibited” on an “innocent, helpless child”, reports the AFP news agency.

    The video footage, which prompted the case, came from a camera the child’s father, Eric Kamanzi, had installed in his home after noticing his daughter was bruised and limping.

    He reported the abuse to police last month and circulated the video online to family members. The footage was later shared more widely, provoking horror and upset internationally.

    After the sentencing, Mr. Kamanzi said: “It’s not for us to decide the punishment for what she committed.

    “We hope this has set an example for other maids out there, that you can’t just go to someone’s house and torture their baby and expect to walk out,” AFP reports.

    Another family member, Rose Zimulinda, said the child was physically well now but there were likely to be longer term psychological consequences.

    Although, until now Uganda does not have any requirement for people paid to look after children to have qualifications.

    However, the Police have recommended that parents do background checks with friends, neighbours, local police, council and previous employers before taking on nannies or maids given these responsibilities.