A police woman, Mrs. Ugo Okochi, who is presently nursing a
child poured hot water and hot melon soup on her 15 year old house help, Miss
Chinyere Igwe at her residence along Mile 50 layout Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, over
alleged disobedience to the directive of the woman.
The woman was said to have poured the girl with hot soup and
water after the girl was directed to fry the melon, but she mistakenly forgot
and poured the melon inside the soup without frying it.
The action of the girl infuriated the police woman who
immediately started beating up the girl, rushed inside her room, brought
teargas to use on the girl but on a second thought, dropped the teargas and
carried a boiling hot water she wanted to use to bath her twins and poured on
the innocent girl.
Narrating her predicament to LEADERSHIP, Chinyere who lost
her father recently was taken in by her Mrs. Okochi as a house help and that
her mother gave her out to her mistress because of poor financial status of her
family adding that the woman is from same community with her and that she has
been living with her for the past two years with maltreatment.
According to her; “I am from Bende Local government area of
Abia state. Me and my madam are from same community , my father is dead, only
my mother is alive and I have been living with my madam for the past two years
. My madam asked me and her mother to go and cook soup and I obeyed the
directive. The mother said I should go and cook the soup alone.
“I started preparing the soup, I put oil and onions. I told
my madam that I want to put Egusi(melon) and that I want to pour out the Egusi
on the plate and turn it with water before pouring it inside the soup. She said
no, that I should fry the egusi before poring it inside the pot soup and I
refused to fry it . In anger, she came out and carried the pot soup
together with the egusi and threw at me. I dodged it but it landed on my back.
“The egusi touched her small on the body when she threw it
on me and she quickly got water and clean it. She carried iron and hit me on
the body and ordered me to pin down (place one of fingers on the ground and
raise one of my legs up at the back) and I said no that my back is paining me
seriously.
“She shouted at me seriously and asked who I am to oppose
her order and I pleaded with her to have mercy on me. She then went inside and
brought out her teargas and I started crying and begging for forgiveness. She
rushed to hot water and poured it on me. She ordered me to remove the cloth on
my body which she dashed me and I removed it.
“The husband came to me and beat me up. He did not know that
his wife poured hot water on me because it was in the night and there was no
light. Later, he saw my back with serious injuries and asked who did that to me
and I told him the wife poured hot water on me’’.
‘’He asked me why she did it on me and I told him that she
said I poured her hot egusi when she was the one that caused it because she
carried the hot egusi and poured on my body and in the process, the thing
touched her and she grew annoyed’’.
“He ordered the wife to use the substance he brought to
treat my back that he had appointment in the office and left immediately and he
apologized to me before leaving that he was very sorry and did not know that I
sustained such injuries. When her husband left, she asked me to knell down and
I did. She started beating. Me and my madam are from same village and I have been
living with her for the past two years”.
In her reaction, Mrs. Okochi who regretted her action,
accused Chinyere of stubbornness. “This girl has been a problem to me, she has
been giving me troubles and I have made several efforts to send her back to the
mother but she wouldn’t agree to go”, she said.
Chinyere was not taken to hospital for medical treatment as
her condition kept worsening while the inhuman treatment meted on her spread
like wildfire.
This prompted officials of the state Ministry of Women
Affairs and Social Development to storm the house of the woman and rescued
Chinyere.
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