A 35-year-old staff of the National Examination Council (NECO) is being quizzed by the Niger State Child Right Protection Agency for burning, with hot charcoal, the palms of her eight-year-old housemaid, accused of stealing meat from the pot.
The Director-General of the agency, Mrs Mariam Kolo, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna, the Niger State capital, on Saturday, said the accused, Grace Edeh, has three children of her own and is breast-feeding one of them.
She said Edeh was arrested by the staff of the Minna branch of the National Human Rights Commission and later brought to the agency.
According to her, a good samaritan had seen the girl’s burnt hands and scars on her thigh in the market and interrogated her. The maid led the woman to her boss’s house.
Kolo said that the matter was reported to the National Human Rights Commission, which transferred the case to Kolo’s agency.
She said, when interrogated, Edeh told the agency that she ill-treated the girl out of anger as she was fond of stealing meat. She said that the girl was also caught stealing meat from the neighbour’s kitchen.
Kolo, who said that the offence contravenes Section 26 of the Child’s Right Act, warned parents and guardians against maltreating children.
Well it simple to resolve. .just burn back her hands n thighs then.