How Mother Of 4 And Her Neighbour Tortured Maid With Hot Iron And Cables

A Lagos based Alhaja identified as Fatima Williams and her neighbor, Waliu Yusuf have been arrested by the police for allegedly torturing a 16-year-old girl, identified as Kemi Leona, with a hot iron and electric cables, leaving her with deep cuts and scars.

Punch  gathered that Kemi, the tortured maid who was brought from Cotonou, Benin Republic to serve as a maid was reportedly living with Williams, popularly called Alhaja, a mother of four. She’s been living with Alhaja since January 2016 at her apartment at Soji Adepegba Close, Allen Avenue, Ikeja as a maid.

Speaking about the incident, Kemi who is currently on admission at the Police Cottage Hospital, Ikeja, said:

“On that day, Alhaja instructed me to sweep the compound. She also asked me to clean the windows and wash some clothes.

“I started with the washing and she went out. When she returned, she was angry that I had not swept the compound. She called the man to beat me up.”

Narrating her own side of the story, Alhaja said she called Yusuf to beat the girl for being headstrong adding that Kemi’s stubbornness was too much and was causing her increased blood pressure.

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“The girl’s brother brought her to me on January 10, 2016. She usually stole things from the house. I kept reporting her to her brother and even asked him to come to pick her, but he refused; I got tired of the girl.

“She continued her rudeness and messed up the whole house. She also urinated on the bed. During all this trouble, my blood pressure got high. I had to use a BP machine in the house. I called and spoke to her like a child, but she would not listen. I usually gave her the food I ate. I gave her brother N40,000 in January.

“When she got me angry on that day, I was tired of beating her and I called Waliu (Yusuf). He was using an iron. As he beat her, she held his clothes and the iron injured her,” she said.

“The girl went into the kitchen and brought an insecticide, threatening to kill herself. I then tried to take the substance away from her. She began to struggle with me. I started flogging her and she held on to my clothes.

“Meanwhile, I was ironing some clothes that time. I used the iron to scare her to leave my clothes. That was how the iron fell on her. I only wanted to scare her away.”