The Ondo State Police Command said it
would not prosecute the 14-year-old
housemaid, Mary Akinnifesi, who allegedly
put poison into the food of her boss,
Alhaji Nasiru Akinlosotu, in Ondo town
Ondo State last week.
Akinnifesi was alleged to have added
some rat-killer powder to Akinlosotu’s food
as revenge for the alleged maltreatment
she suffered from her boss.
The 63-year-old boss was reported to
have noticed the poison in the food as he
discovered that the food had a strange
taste and an unpleasant odour when he
was eating it.
It was gathered that he quickly vomited
the little he had swallowed from the food
and asked the maid about the content of
the food but she denied adding poison to
it.
She later confessed to having committed
the offence during an interrogation by the
neighbour of the boss and thereafter she
was handed over to the police.
Speaking with our correspondent on
Tuesday, the Public Relations Officer of
the Ondo State Police Command declared
that the command would not prosecute
the teenager following the instruction of
her boss.
He said, “We are not going to prosecute
the girl again because the complainant
(Akinlosotu) has written to us to withdraw
the case. So in that sense, there is
nothing the police can do other than to
obey the instruction of the complainant.
“We intend to do our job but we don’t
want a situation whereby we will get to
the court and the court will say we are
crying more than the bereaved, that is
why we leave the case like that. “
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