Househelp Abducts Her Employer’s Two Children In Ogun, Turns Them To Beggars In Lagos

A middle-aged Fulani woman simply identified as Asmau (pictured above) has been arrested for stealing two children of the woman she was working for in Ogere, Ogun state and taking them to Ikorodu in Lagos state where she turned them to street beggars, Vanguard reports. Asmau who served as a housemaid to the mother of the two children, worked for four months before kidnapping the children Amina, 6 and Rukayya, 7. Mother of the children simply identified as Hawau while narrating how it all happened, said Asmau had been living with her and assisting her with some domestic chores while being paid N400 or N500 daily. According to her, during the Sallah holiday in July, she had planned to send her daughters to their grandparents in Lagos for holiday and had invited her brother to come down to Ogun state to take her children to Lagos. “My brother came to pick them (Amina and Rukayya) but did not meet me and my children at home on Sallah day because we had gone to the Eid ground to pray...