A 28-year old woman, Helen Essien, has been
arrested and charged before Oshodi Magistrates’
Court for allegedly stealing her neighbour’s dogs to
prepare pepper soup in Lagos State, western
Nigeria.
The mother of three from Akwa Ibom State,
southern Nigeria, owns a popular dog pepper soup
joint in Ajao Estate, Lagos, where she was arrested.
Essien reportedly went to Andrew Ozo’s house at
Aimasiko Street, off Afariogun Street, Oshodi, Lagos
and asked him to sell his three dogs to her but he
refused.
According to Ozo, the following day, he woke up in
the morning and did not find the dogs again.
He hurriedly went to Essien’s bar and found her and
her workers busy preparing dog pepper soup.
Ozo said when he confronted her, she denied. But
he was not convinced.
He went to Makinde Police Division to report the
matter and Essien was arrested and charged to
court.
At the station, the suspect admitted that she went
to Ozo’s house to check the dogs, but denied
stealing them.
She explained that she went to Ozo’s house
because her dogs were missing but she pretended
that that she wanted to buy his dogs in order to
check if they were her own.
When arraigned, Essien pleaded not guilty.
The presiding Magistrate, Justice A.A. Fashola,
granted her bail in the sum of N200,000 with two
sureties in like sum.
Essien was remanded in prison custody at Kirikiri,
Lagos, pending when she will perfect her bail
conditions.
The matter was adjourned till 21 October. www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2014/09/19/pepper-soup-seller-arrested-over-missing-dogs/

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