LAGOS woman Ogechi Iruwane has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command after attacking her 12-year old niece Mmesoma Ani who she beat mercilessly and starved for two days for pinch a bit of meat from her stew pot.
Apparently Ms Iruwane, a mother of three, also used her bare hands to pinch off the victim’s chest and inflicted injuries on her back. Mmesoma has now been admitted to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba following the attack.
After the attack, a trader on Nurudeen Street, Orile Iganmu, Lagos State, where the incident happened, raised the alarm. Ms Iruwane was subsequently reported to the Lagos State Office of the Public Defender (OPD), who apprehended her and subsequently handed her over to the police at the Orile Iganmu division.
According to the trader: “I observed that she was not walking well, so I drew closer to her and that was when I saw that her hands were also swollen. She said her aunt flogged her and she showed me her chest and I saw that the skin covering one of her maturing breasts had been pinched off.
"She removed her clothes and I was alarmed when I saw serious injuries on her back. I wanted to take her back to the aunt to ask why she battered the girl so badly without taking her to a hospital but her neighbours told me it was not the first time she would beat her, so I decided to report the matter to the OPD.”
One OPD source said the residents prevented the suspect from escaping when she went to find out why Ani had not returned home from the errand she sent her. OPD director Mrs Salami Olubukola, commended the trader that reported the case, urging residents of the state to always be on the watch for child abuse cases.
“The girl is now in our care. We will not relent in our efforts to stem the tide of child abuse in Lagos State,” she added.
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