18-yr-old maid in Lagos dies without fulfilling university dream

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•She committed suicide – boss claims

By Evelyn Usman

She had always dreamt of furthering her education to the university level. Each time she saw anyone returning home from school, she would look at the person with admiration, imagining when it would be her turn.

Unfortunately, she was deprived of the privilege of finishing her secondary education, let alone proceeding to the higher institution, owing to her parents’ financial state.

Determined to actualize her dream at all cost, Joy Adoel, left her village in Ukpa Uju Local Government Area of Benue State, in January 2019, at the age of 18, for Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, where she worked as a maid with a family. By the way, she was the seventh child in a family of 11.

By January 2020, she left Ibadan for Lagos, for a better living condition, because she alleged that the woman who introduced her to the family she worked with, never paid her salary.

A relative, identified simply as Blessing, brought her to Lagos and introduced her to the Stevens in Bariga area of Lagos, on January 10, 2020, where she started working as a maid. The teenager was said to have planned to save some amount to register for the General Certificate of Education, GCE, later this year and the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board Examination, JAMB, next year, that is, if she passed the GCE.

She did not however live to see dream accomplished as her lifeless body was found dangling from the ceiling in her bedroom, on Monday, April 20, 2020.

Crime Guard learned that the previous day, April 19, 2020, she was beaten by her madam, Mrs Nene Steven. The visible marks of violence were still on her body, as at the time it was evacuated by the Police.

Though her employers said she committed suicide, the bereaved family was of the opinion that she could have been beaten to death.

Explaining what transpired between the day she was beaten and when she was found dead, Mr Steven told Crime Guard that “this is an unfortunate case. My wife did not kill Joy. She committed suicide by hanging herself.


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