63-year-old
Nasiru Akinlosotu, a former medicine store operator, had scolded Mary Akinnifesi
the night before because she spilled water in the living room.
The next
day, her madam, while leaving for work, asked her to prepare beans for dinner
and serve the husband. The wife, Sikirat, is a primary school teacher who owns
a shop where she goes to each day after school. Because of that, she returns
home late and Mary mostly handles dinner.
That night,
Mary, who was still harboring the grudge or the night before, prepared the
beans as instructed then when going to serve her master, she added rat poison.
As fate will have it, as Akinsolotu lifted the spoon with food in it to eat, he
noticed an unusual smell and asked Mary what she put in it. She said it was
only spices that were added but as soon as Akinsolotu put the food in his mouth
he spat it out. He raised an alarm and neighbors joined him to interrogate the
girl and she allegedly confessed to adding rat poison to the food. She had
lived with the couple for two years and had never displayed such behavior.
Speaking to
Vanguard, Akinsolotu narrated the incident and described his survival as an act
of God.
He said:
“I had even
put a spoon of the beans in my mouth and about to swallow it when I
discovered offensive odour and unpleasant taste from the food. I immediately
vomited the beans and called Mary to ask why the beans was smelling in such a
manner and the taste was awful but she
claimed she added spice”.
He said her
explanation was not convincing so he raised the alarm and invited neighbours.
“It was in
the course of interrogation by neighbours that the housemaid confessed that she
crushed the medicine meant for rat that
was bought few days ago by my wife and poured it into my own share of the food.
She later stated that she decided to add the poison into my food in retaliation
for the correction which I made when she
committed an offense in the house. After the confession, I contacted my wife by
phone and narrated the incident to her. Upon her arrival in the house, she
decided to report the matter at Yaba Divisional Police Station in Ondo town for
further investigation into the matter”.
Akinsolotu
said he and his family have decided to drop the charges against Mary because
she is a relative and they only reported to the police so people can be aware
of the activities of some maids.
“Since God
has delivered me from death, why should I fight again? I have left everything to God”.
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