It was confusion galore in Ogere, Remo North local government area of
Ogun State, when a-middle-aged Fulani woman, simply identified as Asmau,
allegedly disappeared with two female children. They were children of
the mistress with whom she served as a house help.
Asmau, according to findings had stayed with the mother of the children
as a house maid for four months before she bolted away with the two
girls, Amina, 6 and Rukayya, 7. She was later arrested in the Ikorodu
axis of Lagos State while using them as beggars.
The mother of the children, simply identified as Hawau, told Vanguard
that the suspect had been staying with her for over four months,
assisting her with some domestic chores while being paid N400 or N500
daily.
Narrating her ordeal, mother of the stolen children, further explained
that, it all started on the last Muslim festival day, Eid-el Fitr, which
was held July 6, 2016.
According to her, she had planned to send the children to Lagos for
holiday with their grand parents, a move she discussed with her brother,
which prompted her brother to visit her during sallah celebrations.
Hawau said:
''My brother came to pick them (Amina and Rukayya) but did not meet
me and my children at home on Sallah day because we had gone to the Eid
ground to pray. He did not wait for me as he left for Lagos.
''When my children knew that he had come and gone they started
crying. Asmau used the opportunity and told me she was going to Lagos
that day and that she will help me to take them to their grandparents,
so, I agreed and asked the children to go with her.
''After two days, I found out that the children were not at their
grandparents’ house, I called the woman but her number was not
connecting. I checked her at her house, I did not find her and my
children.
''I started to go round to check out till I spent all what I had and
yet I did not find them. I then reported to the Sarkin Hausawa of Ogere
Alhaji Abdullahi Saminaka, who organised a prayer and informed the
people.
''Luckily for me, a woman came to the palace and told the Sarkin that
she saw Asmau with my children begging in Ikorodu in Lagos state. So,
he (Sarkin) sent his men to go and bring them; one of them, called Ali
told us that he found the children with the woman begging for alms in
tattered clothes.
''We were also told that the woman removed their new sallah clothes
and gave it to one woman, who was a food vendor, in exchange for food.
The children told us that the woman used to beat them if they cried or
refused to go and beg for alms. She told people, while they went begging
for alms that she is their mother.''
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