November 25, 2013 
By Akpabio Aniema
A woman, Angela Uzoma (28yrs old) is cooling her feet in the police net for allegedly pouring hot water on her maid, Chidinma because she did not sell the paw-paw she was given to hawk. She was arrested by the police from Area M in Idimu, a Lagos suburb on the 8th of November.
In a petition filed to the police by the victim’s lawyer, Ese James Omokaro, she said when the matter came to her notice she reported it to the Human Trafficking Department of the Police in Area G in Ogba Ikeja, Lagos and was directed to to Area M, the jurisdiction which covers the Orisumbare, where the incident took place.
According to Omokaro, ‘‘the law firm of Alex Scott & Partners received an anonymous phone call from the United Kingdom on the 14th of November, wherein, the caller informed the firm of a case of grievous bodily harm inflicted on a minor by her supposed guardian, generally known as Mama Chikamso’’.
The caller craved for the indulgence of the firm to intercede in the matter and directed a person in Nigeria to furnish the firm with the details of the case.
The basis of this petition is to ensure that the victim (Chidinma) gets justice in her own country. It is sad to note that for one week that nobody including friends, family members and neighbours’ of Mama Chikamso who were in know of the incident invited the police to the scene, one of the neighbors (a young lady) had the nerves to challenge the Police, uttering profanity and insisting that the matter which in any does not warrant the interference of the police.
According to Omokaro, ‘‘inflicting such deliberate and gruesome injury on a child knowing fully well its antecedent consequences is nothing short of a barbaric callousness by Mama Chikamso and a deliberate display of man’s inhumanity to man’’. ‘‘The rate of unreported child abuse in Nigeria has reached a worrisome level; that is why people like Mama Chikamso must not be allowed to parade the streets of Lagos freely without paying the price of their actions, we urge that she be arrested and tried for assault occasioning harm on a minor, among other charges to serve as deterrent to others’’.
Uzoma has been charged to the Ejigbo Chief Magistrate Court where she pleaded not guilty and was granted bail on the sum of N50, 000. She is being held at the Kirikiri women’s prison until she meets the bail condition.
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This is a good development, at least the rate of child abuse will reduce.