No fewer than 14 persons arrested for allegedly attacking officials of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps, popularly known as KAI, have been
sentenced to three
months’ imprisonment each.
The convicts were
sentenced on Wednesday after pleading guilty to assaulting the sanitation
officials while they were carrying out lawful duties at the
Oshodi Resettlement
Market.
They were arrested
following an attack on KAI personnel during an enforcement operation in the
market.
According to the Lagos
State Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, the
incident resulted in the assault of KAI officials
and the vandalisation
of an operational vehicle by suspected miscreants.
The suspects were
reportedly apprehended at the scene and subsequently detained at the agency’s
headquarters in Oshodi before being arraigned in court
on Wednesday.
The convicts. Photo: Tokunbo Wahab
Providing an update on
the case via his X handle on Wednesday, Wahab disclosed that the convicts
included Zaradeen Sheu, Abdullahi Bello, Saheed Oladele,
Dan Halima Umar, Nofiu
Ibrahim, Abubakar Sari and Alfred Magnus.
Others are Sanni Adamu,
Umar Sabi, Dayabu Danmar, Seidu Adam, Isa Muhammed, Yakubu Umar and Abubakar
Muktari.
Wahab stated that all
the defendants pleaded guilty and were convicted by the court.
“14 individuals were
arraigned before the Magistrate Court sitting at Bolade, Oshodi, for assaulting
KAI personnel and damaging their vehicle.
“They all pled guilty
and were convicted and sentenced to three months in prison,” he wrote.
Recall that in April, a
Lagos Magistrate Court also convicted and sentenced three individuals for
assaulting KAI officials during a routine enforcement
exercise along Olowu
Street in the Ipodo area.
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