Housemaid madness!!!: another housemaid connives with robbers to rob boss's house

Another housemaid has done it again, this time inviting her boyfriend and others to raid her boss' house.

In the past few days, house helps have given some families cause to have a rethink about

someone to stay with them, going by what has been going round.

It started with the viral video of a housemaid in Uganda

snuffing life out of a toddler » and while the world was trying to get behind that, another

Lagos,

of

GRA

Magodo

made away with two kids from her

house »

mistress'

search for the kids is on, another maid in the same

Mary,

as

identified

armed robbers to raid

house where large amount of money and other valuables

away.

While parading the

robbers, 22-year-old

and 20-year-old Pius Dennis, who

on

arrested

were

2014, the Lagos

Command, the police said though the men were arrested, the maid evaded arrest and fled with the loot.

Dennis,

and

Ikong

learnt, were initially apprehended by policemen attached

division before they were transferred to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad for further interrogation.

Ikong, who hails from Ogoja local

council,

government

State, confessed that the housemaid was his girlfriend and actually invited him to arrange some friends for the operation.

According to him,

boss just

her

that

them

home some gold

money.

at

staying

was

"I

State. I am a commercial

rider. I was dating Mary before she

to

Lagos

to

came

housemaid in the house.

came to Lagos and stayed with a friend, Francis.

Two days before the incident, Mary told me and my friends that her boss brought gold and money into

house, adding that we should come and rob her.

We got to the house around 7pm. It was Mary who opened the door for us. She showed us round the house. We collected the money and

gold. We had earlier tied up the boss in the sitting room.

As we were making our way out, members of a vigilance group, who had also alerted the police,

after us. Eventually, we were rounded up, but Mary escaped."

Dennis who is also from the same Ogoja, on his part, confessed that the housemaid gave them two kitchen knives to threaten her boss, though they did not inflict any injury on her.

"That was my first time of robbing anyone. The girl was Ikong’s lover. She planned everything and asked us to come. We used two kitchen knives which she gave us to threaten the woman; we did not injure her."

The police revealed that the knives used by the suspects

recovered while they are on the trail of the escaped housemaid, assuring that she would

apprehended.

Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth

confirmed the incident.

"Efforts are on to also arrest the fleeing housemaid

brought the robbers."