A 32-year-old woman, Ogechi Isaiah, has lost her right eye after being allegedly assaulted by her lover, Mohammed Yinusa, at Southern Estate, Lakuwe in the Ibeju Lekki area of Lagos State.

According to Isaiah, the incident occurred on January 4, 2025.

She sought the intervention of the police and human rights activists on the matter on May 3.

The victim, who resides in the same compound as Yinusa who is a bus driver, said the two had been in a relationship and that she frequently helped him with domestic chores.

Isaiah explained that on the day of the incident, she had gone to return some freshly washed clothes she had helped Yinusa pack from the line.

On asking him to cross-check the clothes, Isaiah said Yinusa asked her to drop them in the room.

She added that her second attempt to ask was met with a punch to the face by Yinusa.

“I live in the same compound as Mr Yinusa, and we started dating. I was cooking, washing and cleaning his house for him. On January 4, 2025, around 10:30 pm. I brought his clothes that he washed, and I helped him pack them from the rope. I asked him to cross-check if the clothes were complete.”

“He asked me to drop the clothes in his room. So, I repeated that he should cross-check, and before I knew anything, he gave me a heavy blow on my right eye, and immediately my eyes started bleeding and dripping water,” she narrated.

Isaiah said it took the intervention of neighbours who prevailed on him to take her to the hospital for treatment.

She added that while Yinusa promised to foot her medical bills, he had yet to do so.

Meanwhile, Yinusa, in a separate video denied punching her in the eye, adding that he made efforts to treat her after the incident.

He said, “After she took the clothes in, she refused to allow me into the room. She held on the handle of the door from inside and I was also trying to open it from outside. Then we both start to drag the door, until I suddenly left it. Immediately she opened it, she rushed towards me and held my trousers. It was my neighbour who now told me that blood was dropping from her eyes. That was when I realised that the handle of the door removed and hit her in the eye. I took her in my car to the hospital.”