TIPS ON HIRING A HOUSE HELP

By Ladi Ayodeji, Life Coach

Househelps are good as domestic support staff who help in doing house chores like cleaning, cooking, care for the aged and sick, keeping the garden and, even the security of the home and people they live with.

In recent times, however, reports abound on several media platforms of househelp who perpetrate crime and violence against their employers. The latest, being the murder by strangulation, of the mother of a former Governor of Edo State, Lucky Igbinedion, by her maid.

To prevent occurrences like this, here are some tips for hiring househelps:

1. Conduct thorough security checks on any Househelps you want to employ and let there be a police clearance or involvement in the investigation of the candidate.
2. There must be a Guarantor of the candidate’s good conduct who must be their Pastor/Imam, Traditional ruler, or a high ranking person in society.
3. Househelps movement and behaviour should be constantly monitored by her employer, neighbour and relatives, to notice any change of behaviour.
4. Househelps should be replaced at intervals of 12 to 15 months, to frustrate any sinister plans they might have.
5. Employers should not give free access to phone calls by Househelps, without close monitoring, as evil could be hatched by communication with their cohorts.
6. No househelp should be allowed to have friends in the neigbourhood, as such relationships could be a source of criminal behaviour.
7. Details of finances, bank transaction, ATM passwords and other sensitive information should be kept from Househelps as those could inspire criminal behaviour.
8. Some Househelps are satanic. Thorough spiritual checks are of necessity since nobody could determine the type of gods they worshipped before being employed.
9. No Househelp should have access to their employers’ weapons because, if provoked, they could use them against their boss.
10. The mental health of househelps should be properly monitored with regular checks by medical because some might have been exposed to hard drugs or alcohol before being employed.