A 10-year-old housemaid identified as Victory Oghenovo has been tortured
with a burning knife by her boss (aunty), Evidence Eseoghene, for spending N100
on snacks.
According to Sahara Reporters, Oghenovo helped her boss to manage a POS
business at Adeba, Lakowe axis of Lekki. The victim took N100 from the POS
transactions of the day to get herself a snack.
A witness told the publication that he found out what happened to the
girl when she fainted at the POS stand a day after the incident and narrated
her ordeal the previous night.
The witness said: “The girl collapsed on Friday at her shop where she
did POS for her aunty. People gathered there and asked her what the problem
was; she said her back was paining her, we opened the back and saw burns, we
asked her what happened to her, she said she used N100 to buy puff puff and
Zobo when she was hungry on Thursday.”
When the young girl got home the suspect reportedly put pepper in her
eyes after which she placed a hot knife on fire and tortured the little girl
with it.
When she got to the house, the aunt put pepper in her eye, placed a
knife on fire and burnt her with it. I immediately took her to the Elemoro
police station, I discovered she had other scars; I said what happened, she
said some months ago, her aunt called one Alhaja who gave her those scars.
That same day, the police arrested the Alhaja, but the aunty already
fled.”
