The Nigeria Police Power has paraded an Anambra-based lawyer, Adachukwu Okafor, who was just lately apprehended for allegedly assaulting her 10-year-old househelp.
The police had declared the lawyer needed and positioned a N2m bounty on her for allegedly utilizing a red-hot knife, an electrical urgent iron, and different weapons to brutalise the underage househelp.
The Power Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumiyiwa Adejobi, whereas addressing the press on the Power Felony Investigation Division on Friday in Abuja on Friday, famous that it was a case of tried homicide and youngster abuse.
Adejobi, who was represented by CSP Olabisi Okuwobi, the Nationwide Coordinator, Police Marketing campaign towards Cultism and different Vices, defined that the househelp had solely labored for 2 weeks on the home of the suspect earlier than the incident occurred.
He mentioned the suspect alleged that she noticed the househelp fondling the non-public a part of her six-year-old son whereas bathing him.
“On January 29, 2024, this suspect accused her of this and proceeded to tie her arms, mouth and flog her. She additionally inserted a scorching knife into her non-public half and poured floor pepper into it. She then plugged an electrical iron into the socket, allowed it to be scorching, and used it on the maid’s cheek and buttocks.
“After inflicting the maid trauma, she now locked her up in the bathroom from the afternoon of the incident until the night of the next day with out meals,” he mentioned.
Adejobi added that the aunt of the househelp raised the alarm, thereby attracting passersby after the suspect returned the underage assist to the home with the inflicted accidents on her.
“It was at that time that she dropped the younger lady with the aunt, with out fabric, with the burns on the cheek and buttocks, with blood and water oozing out of her non-public half, that the aunts raised an alarm.
“This attracted passersby who introduced out their telephones and recorded them, and it went straight to the social house, which attracted the police and Commissioner for Ladies Affairs in Anambra State,” he defined.
He, due to this fact, reiterated the dedication of the police to making sure the prosecution of the case and justice for the househelp.
“In the meantime, the Inspector Basic of Police has assured Nigerians {that a} diligent prosecution of this case shall be carried out and no iota of the incident shall be swept beneath the carpet. And we’ll make sure that justice is served to the little lady. And this could function a be aware of warning to those that use little kids for youngster labour,” he mentioned.
In the meantime, the Minister of Ladies Affairs, Mrs Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, urged members of the general public to talk out and report any acts of violence, to make sure that justice prevails for the victims.
“You see any unhealthy factor, you shout out; for those who don’t shout out, you’ll die in silence, so I’m so glad you shouted out, and it is sort of a command to us. We in authorities are assuring you that we are going to all the time take it up and can by no means allow you to down ever once more.
“You may have been let down earlier than, however not anymore, as a result of the President has already mentioned the poor ought to breathe. So what he means is that Nigerians must be extra revered, taken care of, and handled with compassion.
“So that is the woman. We’ve got introduced her and are assuring you that we are going to get justice for that lady and justice for the nation. We is not going to let go,” she mentioned.
The suspect, a mom of 4, on her half, denied inflicting any type of accidents on her househelp, claiming she fell on a burning camp fuel whereas she was attempting to flee from being crushed.
“She entered the kitchen along with her again as a result of she was working away from the cane, and she or he mistakenly sat on a burning fuel cylinder. That was what occurred to her. I didn’t use iron or something like that on her or a knife,” she mentioned.
