The Police in Lagos have arrested a sales girl Kehinde Aroyi, a national of Cote d’Ivoire, for allegedly conspiring with two others still at large in an attempt to poison the food they prepared for their employer, Mrs. Abiola Olutosin.
The police say their intention was to kill their employer and steal her foreign currencies including 978RMB China currency, $233 and 5750 Rupia Indonesia currency all amounting to N546,393.
Also arrested with the sales girl was the Gorodom market, Idumota-based native doctor, Jamiu Shittabay, who allegedly prepared the poison the sales girl intended to drop in their employer’s food.
According to the police, the alleged plan to kill the complainant with the poison backfired as one of the sales girls revealed the evil plan to her employer, who reportedly caught them with the poison and seized it from them.
Following the development, Olutosin reported the incident to the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) at charge of Ebute-Ero Division, CSP Ademola Amodu, who directed his men to arrest the suspects. While the police succeeded in arresting the native doctor and Aroyi, others managed to escape.
During the investigation, the police said the native doctor confessed to the crime.
He was said to have admitted preparing the concoctions for the three sales girls to drop in their employer’s food to make her love them, but not to kill her as alleged by the police.
Shittabay reportedly said: “The three sales girls came to meet me in my shrine at Idumota, Lagos Island and beg me to prepare concoctions for them to drop in their employer’s food to make her love them and to stop her from further quarrelling with them on any little mistakes and not to kill her.”
Shittabay and Aroyi were charged before the Tinubu Magistrate Court, Lagos Island on a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy, stealing and an attempt to poison their employer.
Police prosecuting Counsel, Inspector Koti Aondohemba told the Court in the charge marked Tc/04/2022 that the defendants committed the offence on 28 June 2022 at Shop 97, Habibatu Mogaji Shopping plaza, Ebute-Ero market, Idumota, Lagos.
Aondohemba informed the Court that the native doctor prepared poison for the three sales girls to drop in their employer’s food to kill her after which they would steal her foreign currencies, adding that their evil plans however failed as the complainant caught them and collected the poison from them.
He said the offences the defendants committed were punishable under sessions 411,287(7) and 139(a)(b) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges, and Magistrate A.T Omoyele granted them N200,000 bail each with two sureties each in like sum.