Aisha Tijani, a mother of five who is currently in police custody said she her 10-year-old daughter ablaze because she discovered that 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.
Abimbola Oyeyemi, spokesperson of the Ogun State Police Command disclosed thus in a statement on Tuesday.
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“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,” the police said.
Consequently, she was arrested following a report at Mowe divisional headquarters by one Moroof Ayinde.
According to him, “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.”
