Stranger Told Me To Bring My Boss’ Child – Housemaid Who Abducted Baby
Hours after a 22-month-old girl, Mayowa Aweda, was allegedly abducted by
a 14-year-old housemaid at Unity Estate, Idimu, Lagos, men of the Lagos
State Police Command have found the two of them under the Oshodi bridge
around 2am.
The housemaid, Christianah, a young girl from Iseyin, Oyo State, who was
taken in by the Aweda family and put in school, told the police that
she was told by one Matthew to bring the little girl.
According to her, the yet-to-be-identified Matthew also took both of
them on a motorcycle to Oshodi and instructed them to sleep under the
bridge till the following morning.
“He told me that we would be moving early the following morning,” the girl told the police.
Punch had reported how Christianah left the Aweda’s home with the little
girl around 7pm that day and simply disappeared, prompting the family
to launch a search for the duo.
The girl’s father, Mr. Leo Aweda, told our correspondent that when
policemen from the Bolade-Oshodi division saw the two girls under the
bridge, Christianah told them that both of them were from the same
parents and that they had nowhere to go.
“She told them she did not understand Yoruba whereas she is from Iseyin.
The police thought they were taking care of abandoned children,” he
said.
Saturday Punch learnt that Christianah might have had a change of mind
while in police custody and admitted that they were from Unity Estate,
Egbeda, but when the police took her to locate where she came from, she
took the police to two different schools, who denied knowing her.
Aweda said, “She deliberately avoided the school where we put her, which
my daughter also attended. It was while the policewoman was following
her around for about three hours that some neighbours spotted them.
“When we were notified, we followed them back to the station and that
was where she told us that one Matthew took them on a motorcycle from
Egbeda to Oshodi.
“Some people told us that she might have been hypnotised by people who wanted to abduct our child.
When she left home with my daughter, she did not pick any of the things we bought for her except a rechargeable lamp.
While we were searching for her, someone spotted her around 9pm
somewhere with our girl. The person said she had N500 with her out of
which she bought a sausage roll for my daughter.”
Aweda said his family took Christianah in after they needed a housemaid
and an acquaintance told them of a girl from a poor family that needed
help.
Saturday Punch learnt that the family had asked the police to release Christianah to her family.
“We decided to put her in the same school as my child and even sent
N5,000 every month to her mother. After we released her to her family,
the mother has apologised to us and that the girl had admitted
everything. She said it was the devil that used her,” Aweda said.
Category: Lagos News
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