Operatives of the Ogun State Police command have arrested a mother of five for setting her 10-year-old daughter ablaze.
Abimbola Oyeyemi, the police public relations officer (PPRO) confirmed this in a press statement on Tuesday.
He said: “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.”
According to the statement, “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.”
According to the PPRO, upon the report, the Divisional Police Officer, Mowe division, CSP Folashade Tanaruno quickly moved to the scene with the detectives and got the suspect arrested.
He stated that the victim, who had been badly burnt had been rushed to the nearest hospital from where she was referred to Olabisi Onabanjo teaching hospital for proper medical attention.
In the course of interrogation, the suspect, who said she had been separated from the father of her children, claim she didn’t know what came over her as she was carrying out the gruesome act.
Meanwhile, the state Commissioner of Police, (CP) Lanre Bankole, has ordered the immediate transfer of the case to the State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation.