Residents along Poly Road in Tudun Wada in Kaduna state were on Friday thrown into confusion when a 15-year-old housemaid simply identified as Hauwa allegedly ran away with her employer’s 10-month-old son.
According Daily Trust, the infant was kept in her care as the mother, Fauziya Aminu Tukur, went to write a test at school.
Unfortunately, upon her return to her house, her child and the housemaid were nowhere to be found.
The boy’s mother in shock explained to newsmen that she usually left the maid with her son at her neighbour’s place but on that fateful day she asked the maid around 8am to go to the neighbour’s room as she left for school.
Fauziya expressed;
When I returned I went straight to my neighbour’s room to pick them but the neighbour told me that Hauwa didn’t come. So, I went back to my room thinking she might have slept off, I kept knocking the door but no response so I called my husband who brought a spare key and opened the room and she was not inside. We searched for them everywhere.
It was gathered that the 15-year-old maid, an indigene of Zamfara state, left the compound with the baby around 8:30 am, according to a neighbour, and was yet to return.
According to Fauziya, before employing the housemaid 12 days ago, she did a background check.
She said the woman who brought the maid to her had been informed and that the incident had also been reported at Unguwar Sunusi Police station.
The State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Jalige Mohammed confirmed the incident, saying the command is on top of the situation because they are already trailing the suspect.
