The suspect, a primary four pupil in a public school in Ondo town, has been arrested by the state Police Command.
Vanguard gathered that the victim, who resides at Adetomowo Street in the town, escaped eating the poisoned meal by sheer luck.
His wife, Sikirat, was said to have told the suspect, who had stayed with the couple for two years, to prepare the meal and serve her husband before she returns from her shop.
The suspect, police source said, prepared the food for three, but mixed a powdered rat poison in the victim’s dish.
The police source added that the victim discovered that the smell from the beans was unusual and after questioning the suspect, he raised alarm and the maid confessed in the presence of their neighbours.
Narrating how he escaped death to newsmen, the victim described it as an act of God. Nasiru said he never thought the suspect could go to such extent because he chastised her for some wrongdoing.
According to him, “I had even put a spoon of the beans in my mouth and about to swallow it when I perceived an offensive odour and an unpleasant taste from the food. “I immediately vomited the beans and called her to ask why the beans smelt and tasted strange. But she claimed it was because she added spices.”
He said her explanation was not convincing hence he invited neighbours. According to him, “it was in the cause of interrogation by the residents in the neighbourhood that the housemaid confessed that she ground the medicine meant for rat that was bought few days ago by my wife and sprinkled its content into my share of the food.
“She later stated that she decided to add poison into my food in retaliation for the correction which I made when she committed an offence. “After the confession, I contacted my wife to narrate the incident to her. When she arrived, she decided to report the matter at the Yaba Divisional Police Station in Ondo town for further investigation.”
Contacted the Divisional Police Officer in charge of the station, Mrs. Regina Mogbojuri, was not available for comment, but the suspect and the couple were seen at the police station.
The state police spokesman, Femi Joseph, said the matter has not been reported at the state Police Command. However, a police source hinted that a signal on the matter has been sent to the state Police Command headquarters for further action.
Vanguard
Vanguard gathered that the victim, who resides at Adetomowo Street in the town, escaped eating the poisoned meal by sheer luck.
His wife, Sikirat, was said to have told the suspect, who had stayed with the couple for two years, to prepare the meal and serve her husband before she returns from her shop.
The suspect, police source said, prepared the food for three, but mixed a powdered rat poison in the victim’s dish.
The police source added that the victim discovered that the smell from the beans was unusual and after questioning the suspect, he raised alarm and the maid confessed in the presence of their neighbours.
Narrating how he escaped death to newsmen, the victim described it as an act of God. Nasiru said he never thought the suspect could go to such extent because he chastised her for some wrongdoing.
According to him, “I had even put a spoon of the beans in my mouth and about to swallow it when I perceived an offensive odour and an unpleasant taste from the food. “I immediately vomited the beans and called her to ask why the beans smelt and tasted strange. But she claimed it was because she added spices.”
He said her explanation was not convincing hence he invited neighbours. According to him, “it was in the cause of interrogation by the residents in the neighbourhood that the housemaid confessed that she ground the medicine meant for rat that was bought few days ago by my wife and sprinkled its content into my share of the food.
“She later stated that she decided to add poison into my food in retaliation for the correction which I made when she committed an offence. “After the confession, I contacted my wife to narrate the incident to her. When she arrived, she decided to report the matter at the Yaba Divisional Police Station in Ondo town for further investigation.”
Contacted the Divisional Police Officer in charge of the station, Mrs. Regina Mogbojuri, was not available for comment, but the suspect and the couple were seen at the police station.
The state police spokesman, Femi Joseph, said the matter has not been reported at the state Police Command. However, a police source hinted that a signal on the matter has been sent to the state Police Command headquarters for further action.
Vanguard
End time maid.
ReplyDeleteJesus. Such wickedness
DeleteHmm Oga You sure na cause of scolding..U no dey chuck the girl for night when she dey sleep...
ReplyDeleteMy thought exactly!!!
DeleteWow we reason alike ooo though their some housemaid from hell sha.
DeleteWow...that man is one lucky man and that girl is one mean psychopath
ReplyDeleteThis world is full of wicked souls!May God save us from known and unknown enemies within! Amen.
ReplyDeleteWhat a child! Na wa o! Thank God for his safety.
ReplyDeleteJesu Ovie!!! 14yrs?
ReplyDeleteOh my days. SMH.
Househelps doing bad things since 19korodom.
ReplyDeleteOga go and thank God that na small rat poison she put. I am sure too much Yorubahood and Nollywood films the girl they watch.
Na wa oo
See the evil this small girl thought of.. The worst thing I thought of as a child was to "run away".. Tried it once, hardly spent an hour out and I came back home (I was 10,11)
ReplyDeleteShe needs help and the couple should send her back to her parents
How can you employ a 14 years old girl as your househelp, i am shocked with how people make a mockery of law, she is a child and needs training from her parents. The boss is committing child abuse or slavery as you may call it. You can't employ a 14 years old girl to manage and cook for your husband. the ministry in care of children should take this man to court first.
ReplyDeleteShut up if u don't no what to type. 14 yrs is a family who needs support for their children.
DeleteThey should have just allowed the girl to carry her wickedness and go.
ReplyDeleteThe police will soon turn the issue around to child trafficking matter cos of the age of the girl.
It's not child abuse as long as they are sending her to school and paying her school fees...
DeleteAlso my take on the issue ooooo, the couple should be charged for trafficking, imagine 14 in primary school when her mates dey warm up to marry Yerima??????? In the North she is already a house wife too that's to show how messed up Naija is
DeleteAnonymous 21:58, you don't know anything.
DeleteAnd who told you she is a Hw in the north simply coz she is 14? Please next time if you don't know what to say, don't come under anon to blabber rubbish.. please
DeleteThe couple sef.....14yr old as househelp na child abuse. I hope they get arrested for that. Cooking? The 19yr old in my househelp can't cook rice. Evill househelp
ReplyDeleteWicked girl
ReplyDeleteThis one is a witch.
ReplyDeleteEnd time housemaid
ReplyDeleteDid u say 14years??
ReplyDeleteDid u say 14years??
ReplyDeletePlease those of you that have maids, treat them with kindness just like your own children. If this little girl has seen this man "chastise" his kids same way she was chastised, I doubt if she would act that way.
ReplyDeleteWhy didn't the man state the type of chastisement he meted on this girl?
Woman, why is a 12 year old girl the one cooking for your husband?
Do you have a child that is 12 year old; and why isn't she cooking?
How about women that put pepper in the vaginas of little girls that serve them?
Sharap there, my daughter started cooking at age 10 and househelps never like chatisement because they feel you are not the parents so you dont have the right to scold them
DeleteNot condoning that a Maid or anyone's child be maltreated. But no matter the chastisement, poisoning ur boss should never even cross ur mind. I'm worried for the young girl and how she processes her thoughts, if at 14years of age she's already thinking of how to kill someone that supposedly wronged her, then its a serious issue. As for hiring a girl her age as a Maid, that's another issue which I think the state government should look into.
Delete14 year old house help? Hian
ReplyDeleteWhy should a 12 year old child be cooking for you?
ReplyDeleteCHILD ABUSE ALERT!
It's 14 years
DeleteOnly one question. Why would a fourteen year old cook and serve your husband's meal? We women never ever learn!
ReplyDeleteMan, shame on your wife that a 12 year old girl is cooking for you.
ReplyDeleteAyemiOrise, jesu christi doh mimafan
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ReplyDeleteNa wa!
ReplyDeleteDomestic poison...
ReplyDeleteI just hope the boss in question has not been molesting the house help
ReplyDeleteJesus christ
ReplyDeleteHmmm. Similar to what happened to my friends. The maid poured Sniper in her pot of Nsala soup. Knowing d hubby loves d soup. New couple....
ReplyDeleteGod catch her. Nowadays children hate being chastised.
Hmmm...
ReplyDeleteThis life!
Na wa
ReplyDeletePrimary 4 student as a maid?? That couple should be arrested. Why won't she react like that? She's my mature enough to understand. I beg o arrest them for child labor and endangerment!
ReplyDeleteYes,she shouldn't be out there as a housemaid but at that age I wasn't exactly thinking of murdering my parents or elderly ones when I was scolded.
DeleteLet them investigate well, why such wickedness at such a young age? Reason I don't support live in maids at all except entirely necessary. On the flip side they should also rule out if they have also been abusing the maid.
ReplyDeleteA primary four lass working as a maid.
ReplyDeleteAll these small 'shildren' sef
ReplyDeleteThank God for your life. You just dodged a straight bullet.
If na person wey get catarrh, how he wan take perceive the beans? Na waooo
This act by this girl is appalling and not accepted. There is more to this story I believe.
ReplyDeleteWho knows the abuse the young girl has been facing?
Why will she think of such evil act?
God Help Us All
I cant just relate, what will cause a little child to do such act, very small chil
ReplyDeleteMaybe that man has been molesting that girl, they should investigate into dis matter, its deep
ReplyDeleteThere is more to this story. I don't buy the simple scolding bit. Why not also set it for the wife?
ReplyDeleteThe police should investigate this matter well, am sure there is more to this story
ReplyDeleteHow is a 14 year old help, child abuse? Don't 14 year olds do chores in their parents house? Many of you here started having sex at that age! I don't trust the man,he might have made sexual advances towards her,because no ordinary scolding will make her want to kill him! And why was he so suspicious to have raised alarm? He could have rejected the food or asked to be thrown away. There is more to it.
ReplyDeleteIt is waah
ReplyDelete14yrs for North don born pikin....
ReplyDeleteOnly God knows the truth.
14years is not small abeg. I started cooking at age 9 and i grew up with my parents!!! i have seen 10year olds being given out by their parents. The parents actually beg people to take them in. Don't you see children hawking on our streets? Some of them live with their parents and they are not up to 14. This child is a victim of our movie industry. She must have watched it in a movie. May God help us.
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