4-year-old girl blinds her 5-year-old friend with needle

Tears flowed freely at Mushin, Lagos, yesterday after Nimota Adebowale innocently pushed a needle into the right eye of her friend, Fausatu Majekodunmi, while playing in their compound along
Agege Motor Road.


Fausatu wept profusely as blood gushed out from her eyes. Nimota’s mother was said to have rushed Fausatu to a nearby hospital where doctors battled in vain to cure the child but at the end she could not see with the eye. The Adebowales and the Majekodunmis were said to be very close family friends.

One of their neighbours, Risikatu Oluwashola, revealed that the children were playing but nobody saw any of them with the needle. Oluwashola said as Fausatu was screaming, Nimota was also shedding tears.

She said when Fausatu’s parents came back from work, they considered the friendship that existed among them and the action Nimota’s mother took by rushing their daughter to the hospital. They decided that the two children have been friends and that Nimota committed the act innocently.