Househelp Arrested for Stealing Employer’s N1.6m six Hours After Resumption .

26-year-old Franca Amaha, pictured above, has been arrested by men of the Lagos state police command, for stealing N1.6million cash in foreign currencies belonging to her boss just six hours after resuming as a househelp in her house situated in Surulere.

According to the police, Amaha who is from Cross Rivers State had approached an employment agent for a domestic job on July 24, 2019 using a fake name, address and guarantor. Shortly after, she was assigned to one Mrs Taiye at Masha area of Surulere, Lagos.

Few hours after her resumption, she accompanied her boss to the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, to pick her boss’ sister who had returned to Nigeria from abroad. Amaha ransacked her boss’ sister’s luggage kept in the guest house and carted away with $2800, £1000 and 2000 Dutch Guilder.

When interrogated, she said she stole the money so she can use it to treat her sick mother. She said she went to make her hair and bought herself new slippers immediately she stole the money. She reportedly switched off her phone so that she could not be reached.

Her boss immediately lodged a report at the nearest police station in Surulere and she was traced to the residence of one of her friends at Ajah.
Amaha who came to Lagos in 2014, said she had first worked as a maid for another woman who paid her N20000 per month and enrolled her for a diploma programme at the Isolo campus of the Lagos State Polytechnic in Isolo.