A 14-year-old housemaid, Mary Akinnifesi, has been arrested in Ondo town, Ondo State, for
poisoning her 63-year-old boss, Alhaji Nasir Akinlosotu.
Mary was living with the family in their home until that day when the man’s wife asked her to prepare beans for them.
When she was through, she decided to put rat poison in the husband’s food, claiming in her
confessional statement that he usually beat her
when she committed an offence.
The man, who later handed the maid over to
the police, said he was eating the food and had swallowed a part when he suddenly realized
that the taste was strange. According to him,
he later vomited the food and questioned Mary on the strange taste, and she confessed to
have added rat poison to the food.
She was said to have taken the action against
her master because she was rebuked for messing up the living room with water a night
before. Mary who was engaged by the victim’s
wife, had stayed with the couple for two years and had never shown such a behaviour until
that night.
Narrating how he escaped death, Akinlosotu
described it as an act of God. He explained that
he had no inclination that the suspect could go
to such an extent as to want to kill him
because he rebuked her for being careless by
pouring water on the floor in the sitting room.
Akinlosotu, however, said he would not
press charges. “Since God has delivered
me from death, why should I fight again?
I have left everything to God," he said.
Ondo State Police Command image maker
Femi Joseph confirmed that Akinlosotu had applied formally to withdraw the case.
“This is our predicament: Once the complainant says he is not interested in pressing charges, the state is handicapped because the court will
dismiss the case when there is no complainant”, he said.
Joseph quoted the victim as saying the reason
he lodged the complaint with the police was to expose the devilish activities of housemaids
and the need for people to always be vigilant when dealing with them.
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