Mariam Musa’s ordeal
started Thursday, last week, after her 14-year-old stepson, Rahman, was found
reeling in pains at the basement of their three-storey building.
While the
woman and her husband were shocked at the wound he sustained, relations of her
husband rather thought otherwise.
The thirty-four years old
mother of four was arrested for allegedly pushing her stepson from the third floor
of their apartment at No 40 Oluwole Estate Ogba Lagos.
They suspected foul play
and wasted little time in inviting the police from the State Criminal
Investigation and Intelligence Department, SCIIB, Panti, Yaba, to arrest their
brother’s wife accusing her of masterminding the ugly incident.
Mariam Musa, told Crime
Alert: “I was arrested because my stepson accused me of pushing him from the
window of our apartment located on the third floor after he jumped out of the
window himself.
How could I possibly push
the boy (Raman) from the window? I am surprised that he said I pushed him from
the window when he jumped off himself. He was five years old when he started
living with us. God in heaven knows he jumped out of the window himself.”
She continued; “I was a
caterer before I got married 11 years ago, but since then, I have been a
full-time housewife. On Wednesday, at about 6am, I woke my stepson and my
children up to get prepared for school. Later, my son Abudulakim, came to meet
me in the kitchen and informed me that his stepbrother was not in the house.
“When my husband, Umaru,
woke up, he found out that Raman, my stepson, had collected his N5,000.
Throughout the day, we searched everywhere for Raman.
My husband even called his
brother, Abubakar (Raman’s uncle) to know if Raman was at his place but he said
no. Luckily, Abubakar called back at about 5pm and said that they had seen
Raman. That night, at about 9:30, my husband and I went to my brother-in-law’s
place to fetch him back home.
“That was not the first
time he was running away from the house.
Usually, he spends two to three days any time he runs away from home.
Any time he steals at school, sometimes snacks from other children’s bags and
he gets caught, he will not come back home; and most times when he runs away
from home, he sleeps in the mosque.
Because of what happened on
Wednesday, my husband left an instruction before going out, on Thursday morning
that Raman should not be allowed to leave the house. My husband left the
instruction because each time Raman goes out, he gets into one trouble or
another.
Neighbours who spoke with
Crime Alert said that they have seen Rahman attempting to jump through the
window twice on October 29, 2015 before he eventually jumped off.”
“Last week, he was almost
lynched to death after he was caught stealing at a CD/DVD shop. So, I laid on
one of the sofas keeping tabs on him. Unknown to me, while I was sleeping in
the sitting room, Raman jumped out of the bedroom window. Luckily, it was only
his legs that were broken.”
a naughty boy like dat might be lying
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