AnOlAd: Every time now but menh some of these helps are agent of the Devil ooo, am telling u, u really really really need the patience of God to deal with them, if you get easily frustrated don't take an house help ooo biko, no matter how good u are to them, they have been designed to frustrate, the thought of having one again is sooo scary... all of you that come here to complain am sure una never jam house help wahala...

Pukkah: A Lagos High Court in Ikeja on Monday sentenced  27 years  old Mrs. Chiamaka Nnajiofor to 10 years imprisonment for flogging her house maid to death.

The court commuted the murder charge preferred against the woman to manslaughter, while it discharged and acquitted her 41-year-old husband, Elochukwu Nnajiofor.

They had both pleaded not guilty to the murder charge preferred against them by the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution.

Justice Lateefat Okunnu, in her judgment on Monday, ruled that Chiamaka’s sentence would commence from the day she was arraigned along with her husband on September 22, 2011.

The couple was charged with murder for beating their 14-year-old houseboy, Oliver Arakwe, to death on August 17, 2010.

The incident was said to have occurred at the couple’s residence at 81, Femi Tella Street, Ago Palace Way, Okota, Lagos.

Delivering her judgment, Okunnu held that the prosecution, led by Mr. Femi Adamson, had failed to connect Elochukwu with the alleged crime with the various testimonies and exhibits that were before the court.

Okunnu held, “The evidential burden against the second defendant is very weak. There is nothing to show that he was part of the flogging his wife instigated that day and available evidence indicated that he was not in the apartment when it happened.”

The judge also held that that the prosecution was unable to prove the charge of murder against the two of them.

http://www.punchng.com/news/houseboys-death-wife-jailed-10-years-for-manslaughter/

All I saw was that a Man has been granted forceful divorce by the Government...







_{Picks up phone upon release and calls his side chick (now promoted to main chick)...}

25omega: so did they perform an autopsy on the poor boy's body? how the heck do you flog someone to death and get only 10 years? i can't imagine how long she had been beating that boy until his body couldn't take it anymore and he just died. His parents should definitely file a wrongful death civil case against them so they can collect all the money that family will ever make.

tensor777:
You know what was her intention? She certainly deserves to be caged for life both for reribution and to serve as a deterrent to other Nigerian women who systematically maltreat their househelps.

Okija_juju:
Sometimes all it takes is one incident for a person to die..
I still remember how my aunty died in secondary school from an arguement. They didnt even touch each other. Just yelling at each other and she slumped right before my eyes. She was declared DOA at the hospital she was rushed to.
I still remember how the other teacher was crying and rolling like she had killed someone. I still remember how the family member (my aunts family) almost lynched the woman at the funeral.
ll I am saying my guy is that this may have been the one and only time she resorted to beating the kid.

tensor777:
Actually the culprit is a woman and the victim was a 14 year old boy who was systematically starved and brutally beaten until he died.
Get your facts right.

AnOlAd: Every time now but menh some of these helps are agent of the Devil ooo, am telling u, u really really really need the patience of God to deal with them, if you get easily frustrated don't take an house help ooo biko, no matter how good u are to them, they have been designed to frustrate, the thought of having one again is sooo scary... all of you that come here to complain am sure una never jam house help wahala...

tensor777:

You know you are just speculating. Actually it was far more serious than this.

fruityjojo: Noo don't think it was her intention 2 kill d boy.

AnOlAd: Every time now but menh some of these helps are agent of the Devil ooo, am telling u, u really really really need the patience of God to deal with them, if you get easily frustrated don't take an house help ooo biko, no matter how good u are to them, they have been designed to frustrate, the thought of having one again is sooo scary... all of you that come here to complain am sure una never jam house help wahala...

tensor777:

She dem dey prosecute case for mere intention? The degree of recklessness involved is a significant factor that contributes to determining guilt or otherwise in this kind of homicide case. No be you say you be lawyer. ABEG COMMOT THERE!!!

AnOlAd: Every time now but menh some of these helps are agent of the Devil ooo, am telling u, u really really really need the patience of God to deal with them, if you get easily frustrated don't take an house help ooo biko, no matter how good u are to them, they have been designed to frustrate, the thought of having one again is sooo scary... all of you that come here to complain am sure una never jam house help wahala...

Bpriest: stating the truth is not being tribalistic or ethnocentric. Igbos don't treat their employees well.fact.

Okija_juju:
You seem to know so much about this case.
How about you furnish us with what you know and how you came to know about this case. Are you a relative, neighbour or is your information from a third party?

L.M Ayedun..:
Just 10yrs?
I thought killing equals death penalty?

R I P young dude.

Etumgbe: Only 10yrs?

tensor777:
Come on Okija you can do better. Just google the names to get more background about the case.

wellmax: Serves them right. If you can't treat them as your own children, don't keep them as house-helps.

dabossman: My first thought was "just 10 years?" But when you think about it, manslaughter may just have been the best the prosecution could have done, especially when you consider that we do not really have the capacity to prove what went down or that there was intent to kill. we don't have forensics that could help to recreate the events of the crime scene. Even the autopsy might work in the defendants favour if it show that it was one deadly blow to a vital organ i.e the head that killed the boy and not a prolonged session of flogging.
I strongly believe that we must enforce the child labour laws in this country. If you need a maid, employ someone above 18. if you are too scared or too insecure to employ an adult then quit your job and cater to your own home. And I'm not just referring to wives.
That said, I bet the when this couple were taking their wedding vows, they never considered 'till jail do us part"
RIP young, unfortunate lad.

tensor777:
Again you are just speculating. Do you know the nature of the evidence that was put before Justice Okunnu? Presumably for the woman to have been charged with murder the prosecutor must have had sufficient circumstantial evidence.There does not have to be intent to kill to secure conviction in a homicide case.
As for the rest laudable as they are its not going to happen anytime soon. The culture of indentured child slavery is too well entrenched in Nigeria.
That has to change.

dabossman:

However, the judge did pronounce that there was not enough evidence to proclaim a guilty verdict for murder.

tensor777:
Now look here Boss Man when the story first broke in the media there was all manner of gruesome photographs of lacerated bodies and neighbours' harrowing stories of the convicted woman's systematic cruelty towards her 2 houseboys. IT WAS ALL OVER THE MEDIA! So I don't know why Justice Okunnu did not consider this prima facie evidence to cage the Chiamaka lady for life