allegedly stealing her employer's jewellery valued at N40 million.
Rita, an indigene of Calabar, in Cross River State, admitted to the
police that she handed them over to a fraudster who promised to make
sacrifice for her to enable her marry a white man that would take her
abroad.
The housemaid was arrested following a complaint lodged by Mrs. Adaeze
Nwuba to the police at Zone 2 Command, Onikan, Lagos Island.
In her confessional statement to the police, Rita allegedly admitted
that she was charmed by the fraudster whom she met on the street to
steal the jewellery.
"When I went to buy a recharge card, a young man accosted me on the
street and said heavens told him to help me solve my family problems.
He told me to go back home and bring my madam's jewellery for him to
make a sacrifice for me.
"He promised me that after the sacrifice, all my enemies in my family
will die and I would be able to marry a white man that will take me
abroad. The moment he spoke with me, I lost my senses, and I ran home
to pack my madam's jewellery and handed them over to him," she
allegedly told the police.
Rita said after the man collected the jewellery, he took her to an
unknown place with his car along with two other men and they raped her
in turns.
"He dropped me off at Oshodi Bus Stop the next day and warned me not
to tell anybody about what happened. He promised me that a white man
would approach me for marriage within two days. Before I regained my
consciousness, he had gone," she said.
Rita was charged before an Igbosere Magistrates' Court on a two-count
charge of stealing.
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