Police arrest mother for pouring petrol on 10-year-old daughter, setting her ablaze

A housewife and mother of five, Aisha Tijani, has been apprehended by the operatives of the Ogun State Police Command for pouring petrol on her 10 years old daughter and setting her ablaze.

According to the state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspect was apprehended 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.

Oyeyemi further quoted the man reporting that the woman got annoyed because the little girl took a phone, which she seized from one of her children from where she kept it and returned it back to the woman’s child who owns the seized phone.

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The PPRO said following the report, the DPO Mowe division, CSP Folashade Tanaruno, quickly moved to the scene with the detectives and got the suspect arrested.

Oyeyemi said, “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.

“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.”

Oyeyemi said that the state Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for further investigation.