Yemi Obafemi
A woman identified as Rukayat has confessed of poisoning her one year old sick child, using a poisonous insecticide, “Sniper’’.
According to Rukayat, her one-year-and-seven months’ old daughter was battling with epilepsy and she gave the child the snipper so she could rest from her excessive convulsions.
Confirming the incident, Police spokesman in Lagos state, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday that the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, reported the attempt to the police on Friday.
He said the chief security officer at the hospital reported to the police that the mother brought her one-year-and-seven months’ old daughter to the hospital for treatment.
He added that the mother confessed to a doctor at the hospital that she gave the child “Sniper’’ to drink on Sunday when her convulsion was not abating.
“The mother said she gave the liquid to her child so she could rest from her excessive convulsions.
“Detectives were immediately dispatched to the hospital where they met the baby receiving treatment.
“The mother has been taken in for investigation after the child had received treatment,’’ Hundeyin said
