Women can be evil at times and their wickedness is baffling. Lagos State Police Command has arrested a fashion designer, Bisi Olukayode, for allegedly torturing her maid, Anjuah Sunday, aka Titi, at her residence in the Lekki area of the state. PUNCH Metro learnt that Sunday had been living with the suspect at her residence in Lekki Gardens Estate Phase 3, for two years.

The Togolese, who arrived in Lagos with her grandmother, was allegedly renamed Titi and handed over to the Olukayodes by an agent.It was alleged that Bisi tortured the 14-year-old with sticks, wire and canes, during which the victim sustained injuries in different parts of her body. Bisi allegedly usually locked up Sunday in a toilet anytime she (Bisi) was going out.

Some residents, whom the victim reportedly begged for food through the window of the toilet, alerted officials of the Office of the Public Defender. A social worker at the OPD told punch correspondent that the agency visited the estate on Tuesday with a view to rescuing the victim. She said the officials first reported at the Adeniji Adele Police Station and got police back up for the operation.

“We got there round 10am. The estate security guards cooperated with us after we told them our mission. We, however, discovered that the suspect’s house was locked; though we suspected that the woman and the girl were inside the house. We called her telephone number and told her we had come to see her about the girl. She immediately switched off the phone and refused to talk. “We didn’t leave until around 3pm because we learnt that the husband usually brought the children from school around that time. When we didn’t see him, we called him as well, but his phone rang out,” she added.

She noted that while the rescue team was leaving the estate, the security men were asked not to allow the couple sneak out with the maid.

Around 7pm, the suspect’s husband was said to have returned into the estate with the children in a cab. The husband reportedly asked the cab driver to switch off the vehicle’s inner light, as he took their three children into the house.