Hypnotised Housemaid Gives Employer’s N5.5m Jewellery to Fraudsters

An 18-year-old domestic househelp, Mercy Odita, who works for one Ngozi Okeke at Road 8, Abraham Adesanya Estate, Ajah, has been accused of stealing her employer’s gold jewellery and other fashion accessories worth N5.5m.

Odita however opened up to the police claiming she delivered the stolen items on the 10th of February to one Peter and a yet-to-be identified elderly man, implying that she was hypnotized.

Punch Newspaper reports that Odita had agreed to burgle her employer’s room on the advice of two strangers she met at the market the previous day. 

While Mrs Okeke was away, Odita, who had earlier stole the key to her employer’s bedroom, gained entry and emptied Okeke’s collection of fashion accessories.Some of the items she was said to have stolen included rings, necklaces and wristwatches.

She was said to have delivered the items to the fraudsters at an agreed location, including the sum of N2,000 that was given to her by Okeke to buy some items for the kitchen.

After delivering the items, Odita was said to have reported herself to the Maroko Police Station.

The alleged fraudsters are still at large.

She has now been arraigned on two counts bordering on theft before Mrs. A. T. Omoyele of the Lagos Magistrate’s Court, Tinubu, Lagos Island.