Days after
Imohimi Edgal, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, today led a team of
policemen to rescue a 13-year-old girl identified as Nkechi Oseh, at No. 30
Adeniran Ajao Estate Anthony, her boss has reported at the police station.
According to
the Lagos State police P.R.O, Chike Oti, her boss, Ms Betty Ifeoma, reported
herself to the police, this evening, and she is currently undergoing
interrogation at the Human Rights section of Lagos State Police Command.
The suspect
would be charged to court on Monday 27/11/2017. It was gathered that Ifeoma, a
staff of NNPC Lagos state office, was in the habit of locking her up for weeks
anytime she is travelling within or out of the country, leaving her with only
two packets of cabin biscuit.
After she
was rescued, Nkechi who was looking pale and malnourished, said she is an
orphan. She said whenever her boss travels and locks her in, she resorts to
drinking water from the toilet whenever she is thirsty.
It was
observed that Nkechi had been subjected to series of domestic attacks as scars
were seen all over her body. She told Edgal that she has been locked up four
different times, since her uncle brought her from Igboju in Delta state.
In her
words: “I have been locked up for two weeks, one-week, three-weeks when she
traveled to London and since she traveled on Saturday. I have been crying
before God helped me today.”.
An empty
packet of biscuits and a container of eaten food which was passed through the
burglary proof for Nkechi to eat was discovered on the floor. She is currently
under the care of the Child Protection Unit of the Ministry of Youth and Social
Development.
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