Negligence is Foolishness

By Peter Adeyela

One day, a little girl defecated on herself in school. The class teacher handed her over to the caregiver, who cleaned her up and asked her to return to class.

But this child had long been curious about the swimming pool in the school. Instead of returning to class, she wandered toward the pool. Sadly, on that day, the maintenance officer had left the pool gate unlocked while attending to a blocked water pipe....