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Operatives of the Ogun State police command have arrested a housewife and mother of five for pouring petrol on her 10-year-old daughter and setting her ablaze.

The suspect, Aisha Tijani, was arrested following a report 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 daughter and set her ablaze.

Ogun State police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the complainant alleged that Tijani got annoyed because her daughter 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.

“Upon the report, the DPO Mowe division, CSP Folashade Tanaruno quickly moved to the scene with the detectives and got the suspect arrested,” Oyeyemi said. “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.

“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.”

Ogun State Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to state criminal investigation and intelligence department for further investigation. (Independent)

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