Reports have it that the Nigerian police have arrested a couple identified as Nene Fortune and Stephen for allegedly beating their maid to death in the Bariga area of Lagos state.
It was accounted that the maid identified as Joy Akom Adole was working with the husband and wife in their home where she is being paid fifteen thousand naira (#15,000) monthly and on the 20th of April 2022, the couple called the police to inform them that their maid had committed suicide following a misunderstanding with her madam, Nene Fortune.
According to a statement by the Lagos State Police Command’s spokesperson identified as Bala Elkana, after the officers arrived at the scene they noticed a lot of fresh wounds on the body of the deceased which proved she was tortured.
The full statement reads;
“Our operatives at Bariga received a complaint from a couple that their househelp committed suicide. That is the initial report that they got.
“The DPO led a team of Homicide detectives to the house and they saw the housegirl hanging on a rope but the way she stood on the rope raised an eyebrow because it actually looked like it was a stage managed event.
“The detectives went further to check for marks of violence and they saw a lot, fresh wound. She was actually tortured so there is a likelihood that she died and they tried to cover up by putting her on a rope to show she committed suicide.”
