A newly hired housemaid has been arrested after allegedly stealing a jewelry collection valued at 4 millions of naira from her madam.
A Twitter user with the handle @Ekwulu shared photos of the lady after she was exposed and arrested.
''Beware of that House-Help in Your Home.
What happened in my home is sort of stuff you see in famed television program- Super Story.
Exactly one month ago, my family hired this 23 year old young lady, Happy Yahuda into our home. During the interview session, I had asked her. The
people in the house would suffer some degree of amnesia. So, she can steal whatsoever she desires and the owners would not remember that they owned the things or looked for them. They also told her that she must make sure no other person sees the juju otherwise it would lose it powers and she could become mad.
My ears heard things that at my age my brain could not process.
For the past one month we had harboured and cared for the devil. She had unfettered access to my children. At times, she even dished my food as well as the children. As a rule, we do not maltreat anyone who works with us. They eat and drink same as us. The estimated value of what she had tried to steal is approximately four million Naira.
The next question became what to do with her. I got her phone, went through the call logs. A particular number called her thirty-one times from 5AM on Saturday. She confessed that to be the number of the kingpin. I asked her when she carried the items in her possession. She said on Thursday evening. So, when she called the kingpin she had accomplished her mission, they started to put her under pressure to leave the house and return to them.
Now, the final resort should ordinarily be to hand her over to the police. But I shall not be taking up this option. I have my reasons. In 2015, while serving as an appointee of the government in Cross River State, and my wife temporarily resident in America, I discovered my driver - Jack, had duplicated keys to my main entrance door, and because I was away for months at a stretch, had striped my home of all my valuables. He of course ran away. I tracked him, got him arrested. Insisted on his being tried in court. Attended two court sittings until he was remanded at Kirikiri prison for about five months. Later, on following up with the police I realized he was released without recourse to me. In their words, he had suffered already for the crime. To get to this stage, I know how much I was extorted by the police. I let it go.
On another occasion, this time at the office, my admin manager connived with our company driver to cart away camera equipment worth over seven million Naira from the office strong room. The driver disappeared. But I got the admin manager arrested. I know how much extortion I underwent to the point that the most sensible thing to do was to cut my losses. Our criminal system mets more punishment to the victim than the criminals, sadly.
I feel sad for this young lady. Even though she’s done enough to suffer behind bars, I feel nothing but pity for. I see her as a victim of the kind of society we now find ourselves, where a twenty-three year old from a very poor background is so desperate to make it without working. They could have asked her to poison all of us in my family. She would have carried out their instructions to the letter. I am grateful to God for sparing us of disaster or our friends and loved ones of bad news. If she is wise she would realize she also has been delivered if ever she was under a spell. I took her phone, took out her SIM card, wiped out everything on it and put back to factory reset so that whoever those people are, they can’t reach her except she goes back to them herself. Of course she can get her number back, but our details she would no longer have. This morning, I have asked her to go. To ensure that no other innocent family falls victim to this evil and demonic nexus that plants their agents in homes of unsuspecting families, I am publishing her photo and details so that there is no hiding place for her and her likes. Hopefully, if everyone shares this story and other similar stories, these evil people shall quit their current trade. Happiness, Like many others like her who at the moment are in the various homes of unsuspecting families, was never seeking a job. She didn’t want the job. She was simply on a mission to steal, kill and destroy.
Finally, be careful and watchful of the people you allow into your homes. Unlike me, learn to be perpetually suspicious.
May God save and preserve us from evil''
NB: Someone sent this story to me.