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The police in Lagos State have arrested a
middle-aged woman, Linda Alapa, for
allegedly beating her 10-year-old housemaid,
Joy Mbafan, to death.
Mbafan lived with the suspect on Bolanle
Oduniyi Street, Okegbegun, in the Ikorodu area
of the state.
PUNCH Metro Aproko learnt that Alapa was
flogging the girl for a misdemeanor around
3am last Monday when she passed out and
died afterwards.
At the Ikorodu General Hospital morgue where
she had gone to deposit Mbafan’s corpse, a
doctor on duty was said to have noticed
marks of violence on the body and alerted the
police at the Sagamu Road Division.
A police source told PUNCH Aproko that after
interrogation, Alapa confessed to beating the
girl, adding that she would be charged with
murder.
“She wanted to absolve herself of the death of
the victim, but for the doctor on duty who
raised the alarm after a close examination
and she was arrested. There are marks of
violence on the body of the deceased and she
did not deny beating her.”
Some residents of Bolanle Oduniyi Street, who
spoke to PUNCH Metro Aproko on Wednesday,
said they had warned her many times to desist
from assaulting the victim to no avail.
A neighbour of the suspect said Alapa did not
only beat the girl but also starved her of food.
The woman, who gave her name only as Ellen,
said although she did not know what led to
the beating on that day, “she usually beat the
girl for messing up their apartment.”
“Around 3am on the day the girl died, I heard
her crying as the woman (Alapa) flogged her.
I woke up my husband to intervene. He said
he was tired of the woman’s insults. After a
while, she stopped crying.
“It was when I came back from work that
afternoon that I saw a crowd on our premises
in tears. They said Joy (Mbafan) was dead.
The woman’s husband was not at home that
day. It was the landlord that told him about
the incident on the telephone.”
The landlord and Alapa’s husband were not
around when PUNCH Aproko visited the
residence on Wednesday. The Alapas’
apartment was locked.
Another resident, who spoke on condition of
anonymity, said the girl’s father was late while
her mother was ill, adding that Alapa had
brought her to Lagos from a village in the
eastern part of Nigeria.
“But she used to beat up and starve the girl of
food. On several occasions, the girl would
come to me to eat, saying her aunty did not
give her food.”
Lamenting Mbafan’s death, a trader in the
area, who identified herself only as Deborah,
told PUNCH Metro Aproko that she had urged
the suspect to counsel Mbafan rather than
apply corporal punishment.
She said, “She made that little girl to lose self-
confidence. Her body bore marks of lashes.
Now that the girl is dead, she should also
face the music.”
The Lagos State Police Public Relations
Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, in a text message,
said, “I confirm the case. The suspect is under
investigation while the corpse has been
deposited in a morgue for autopsy.”
[color =blue]OUR UNRELIABLE APROKO[/color] reports a police
source told him that an autopsy report shows
the beating the woman gave the 10 year old is
so fierce that if the same beating was applied
on the Nigeria economy, the recession would
have passed away.
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