– A police woman has allegedly poured hot water a 15-year-old girl
– The girl until the incident was the police woman’s house help
– The police woman was also alleged to have maltreated the girl for years
The Wife of Ebonyi Governor, Mrs Racheal Umahi, has called for the arrest of a policewoman who allegedly poured hot water on her 15-year-old house-help for wrongfully applying condiments in a pot of soup.
Umahi made the call after officials from her office and the State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development rescued the girl from the policewoman at her home in Mile 50, Abakaliki.
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Mr Donatus Owo, the Chief Press Secretary to Umahi, said in a statement in Abakaliki on Saturday that she was touched by the fact that girl’s body looked irritable because she was not given proper medical care.
The Wife of Ebonyi Governor, Mrs Racheal Umahi, called for the arrest of the policewoman who allegedly poured hot water on her 15-year-old house help
“The matter has been reported to the police while the victim was taken to Police Clinic for medical treatment,’’ she said.
The victim, Chinyere Igwe, who hails from Igbere in Bende local government area of Abia, said she had lived with the policewoman for two years within which she suffered various forms of maltreatment.
Igwe said she was preparing soup on that fateful day when her employer got annoyed that she did not prepare the soup according to her instruction.
“Only my mother is alive and I have been living with my madam for over two years now. This is as a result of my father’s death coupled with my mother’s financial handicap.
” I failed to follow her instruction and in anger she came out and carried the pot of soup together with the egusi (melon) and threw at me and it landed on my back.
“She also
“She locked me up in a room while she went to boil water to pour on me.
“I pleaded with her to have mercy on me but she went inside and brought teargas, then I started crying when she rushed to get hot water and poured on me,’’ Igwe said.
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The victim said that Mr Kingley Okochi, the husband of the suspect, also hit her after the wife complained to him about the incident.
”Her husband also beat me up, but he was not aware that I had such injury because it was in the night. He later apologised and asked his wife to use honey to treat my back,’’ Igwe said.
The suspect, Mrs Joy Okochi, however, claimed when the team from Government House, Abakaliki, came to her apartment that she did not pour hot water on the girl intentionally.
The Director of Child Welfare Development in the State Ministry of Women Affairs, Mr Godwin Igwe, and the State Chairman of International Federated of Women Lawyers, Miss Olivia Okpaleke, said the culprit must face justice.
Meanwhile, the Police Public Relations Officer in Ebonyi, Mr Jude Madu, said he had not received the report.
Meanwhile, ZENITHBLOG.com reported that two traffic wardens, Musa Muktar with force number 394120 GDI and Shuaibu Suleman with number 10627 have been sacked for alleged extortion.
The announcement was made by ACP Abayomi Shogunle, the assistant commissioner of police in charge of the Public Complaint Rapid Response Unit (PCRRU), in Abuja on June 20, 2017.
The statement obtained by ZENITHBLOG.com showed that the sacked officers were attached to the Wuse Police Division in the Federal Capital Territory command.
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