The police have
arrested a Beninois teenage housekeeper (name withheld) who allegedly attempted
to kill a 93-year-old woman by adding a substance suspected to be sniper
insecticide to her tea.
The Spokesman for the
Lagos State Police Command, DSP Bala Elkana, confirmed the arrest on Tuesday.
He said that the
suspect was employed by the daughter of the nonagenarian, Madam Christiana
Ogunshina.
According to him, the
alleged incident occurred on Saturday at 11 Ajayi St., Mende, Maryland, Lagos
State.
The spokesman said
that the old woman lived in same building with her daughter, who always
instructed the housekeeper to stay with her mother anytime she went to work.
According to him, the
employer lived downstairs while her mother lived upstairs of a story building.
The image maker said
that the suspect went upstairs to stay with the old woman on Friday as usual
and met her preparing tea in her sitting room.
He said that the woman
closed the tea cup for a while and went into her bedroom.
Elkana said as soon as
the old woman left the sitting room for the bedroom, the suspect opened the cup
and added a substance.
According to Elkana,
the nonagenarian’s domestic servant who was working in her kitchen came to the
sitting room and saw the suspect adding the substance, and reported to the old
woman, who threw the tea away.
The woman’s son,
Abayomi Ayobami, reported the case at the Anthony Village Police Station at
1.00p.m. on Saturday upon which“the police visited, searched the house,
arrested the suspect and recovered an empty mug of the suspected poisoned tea.
“The suspect confessed
to the offence, alleging that the old woman always shouted at her; she said she
was tired of her tantrums, so she decided to poison her tea that day.
“She laced her unsuspecting
victim’s usual morning tea with sniper (Dichlorvos or 2,2-dichlorovinyl
dimethyl phosphate)
She will be charged to court soon,’’he said.
