A housewife Aisha Tijani, is now in police custody for setting ablaze her 10 year old daughter, an act which resulted to a bad burn.
She was arrested by the Police in Ogun.
Trouble began for Aisha the mother of five after she poured petrol on the little girl and was arrested on the 20th of March 2022.
According to DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Ogun State Police Command Spokesperson, the suspect, Aisha Tijani was arrested following a report lodged at Mowe divisional headquarters by one Moroof Ayinde, who reported that the suspect who lives in the same house with him poured petrol on her little daughter and set her ablaze.
He stated further that, the woman got annoyed because the little girl took a phone she seized from one of her children from where she kept it and gave it back to the child whose hand the phone was seized.
Police said the DPO Mowe division, CSP Folashade Tanaruno quickly moved to the scene with the detectives and got her arrested.
Report has it that the victim who had been badly burnt was rushed to the nearest hospital from where she was referred to Olabisi Onabanjo teaching hospital for proper medical attention.
DSP Oyeyemi said that on interrogation, the suspect, who claimed to have been separated from the father of the children, explained to the police that she didn’t know what came over her when she was carrying out the wicked act.
Meanwhile, the State commissioner of police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to state criminal investigation and intelligence department for further investigation.
