The Lagos State Commissioner of Police Ag CP Imohimi Edgal has
rescued a 13-year-old housemaid, Nkechi Oseh, who was locked indoors by
her Madam, Ms Betty Ifeoma, a staff of NNPC Lagos state office at their
residence at No. 30 Adeniran Ajao Estate Anthony, Lagos while traveling
out of the country.
The NNPC staff left the housemaid with only two (2) packets of
cabin biscuit. Narrating the incident, Nkechi, an orphan with scars
spotted on her body, said whenever her boss travels and locks her in,
she resorts to drinking water from the toilet whenever she is thirsty.
According to her, she has been locked up at four different times
since her uncle brought her from Igboju in Delta state. Pale and
malnourished Nkechi said: “I have been locked up for two weeks,
one-week, three-weeks when she traveled to London and since she traveled
on Saturday I have been crying before God helped me today”
Nkechi who is currently under the care of the child protection unit
of the Ministry of Youth and Social Development Lagos State. Empty
packets of biscuits and a container of eaten food which was passed
through the burglary proof for Nkechi to eat was discovered on the
floor.
The Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, has vowed to get to the bottom of the matter.