The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a mother of five for allegedly pouring petrol on her 10-year-old daughter and setting her ablaze.
Aisha Tijani was arrested on March 20 following a report lodged 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 little daughter and set her ablaze.
He added that Tijani got upset because the victim took a phone that was seized by her mother from one of her siblings and handed it over to her sibling.
Upon the report, the DPO Mowe division, CSP Folashade Tanaruno quickly moved to the scene with the detectives and got the suspect arrested.
The victim was rushed to the nearest hospital with severe burns from where she was referred to Olabisi Onabanjo teaching hospital for proper medical attention.
On interrogation, Tijani 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 set her daughter ablaze.
Confirming the arrest, the spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the commissioner of police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for further investigation.
