A middle-aged Fulani woman simply identified as Asmau
(pictured above) has been arrested for stealing two children of the woman she
was working for in Ogere, Ogun state and taking them to Ikorodu in Lagos state
where she turned them to street beggars, Vanguard reports.
Asmau who served as a housemaid to the mother of the two
children, worked for four months before kidnapping the children Amina, 6 and
Rukayya, 7.
Mother of the children simply identified as Hawau while
narrating how it all happened, said Asmau had been living with her and
assisting her with some domestic chores while being paid N400 or N500 daily.
According to her, during the Sallah holiday in July, she had planned to send
her daughters to their grandparents in Lagos for holiday and had invited her
brother to come down to Ogun state to take her children to Lagos.
“My brother came to pick them (Amina and Rukayya) but did
not meet me and my children at home on Sallah day because we had gone to the
Eid ground to pray. He did not wait for me as he left for Lagos. When my
children knew that he had come and gone they started crying.
Asmau used the
opportunity and told me she was going to Lagos that day and that she will help
me to take them to their grandparents, so, I agreed and asked the children to
go with her. After two days, I found out that the children were not at their
grandparents’ house, I called the woman but her number was not connecting. I
checked her at her house, I did not find her and my children. I started to go
round to check out till I spent all what I had and yet I did not find them.
I
then reported to the Sarkin Hausawa of Ogere Alhaji Abdullahi Saminaka, who
organised a prayer and informed the people. Luckily for me, a woman came to the
palace and told the Sarkin that she saw Asmau with my children begging in
Ikorodu in Lagos state. So, he (Sarkin) sent his men to go and bring them; one
of them, called Ali told us that he found the children with the woman begging
for alms in tattered clothes. We were also told that the woman removed their
new sallah clothes and gave it to one woman, who was a food vendor, in exchange
for food. The children told us that the woman used to beat them if they cried
or refused to go and beg for alms. She told people, while they went begging for
alms that she is their mother.”
Asmau is presently in police custody.
Source: dailynews
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