Nurse arrested in Ogun for allegedly injecting 22-year-old graduate in the nerve, causing permanent disability to his leg

A 35-year-old auxiliary nurse, Jimoh Ganiyat, has been arrested by men of the Ogun State police for allegedly injecting a 22-year-old graduate, Omosebi Tomiwa, in the nerve thereby causing permanent disability to one of his legs

She was arraigned on Monday and charged before the magistrate on a 5-count charge bordering on negligence and reckless treatment of the victim as well as malicious assault on the victim and the mother

It was gathered that the accused person in the process of treating the victim for malaria and typhoid injected him in the nerve thereby causing disability to one of his legs.

Speaking with newsmen, the victim said: “In May, I was not feeling fine and the woman, who was then known as a nurse was invited to treat me. Then, I didn’t know that she was not a registered nurse.

“She gave me three injections and I shouted at her to remove it when I felt a very sharp pain. Three days after that the pains became unbearable and one of my legs was completely deformed. It has really affected me. I could not be mobilised for my National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme. I am supposed to be in service now but the pains are too much.”

He added that “the worst thing is that she abandoned me and later became very violent after being told that it would require a major operation to treat my deformed leg.”