‘Canadian Returnee’ Jailed Three Months For Injuring Lagos KAI Official
A 52-year-old man, Mr. Morufudeen Idowu, who claimed to be a Canadian returnee, has been sentenced to three months imprisonment for assaulting a Lagos State government official during a routine enforcement operation.
The incident occurred on Friday at Ojota, Lagos, when an officer of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC), also known as KAI, accosted Idowu for unlawfully crossing the expressway.
Rather than comply with the officer, he reportedly resisted arrest and violently attacked him.
The assaulted officer sustained bodily injuries during the altercation, according to the Director of Public Affairs at the Lagos State Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, Mr. Kunle Adeshina.
Idowu was immediately taken into custody and detained at the KAI headquarters in Oshodi.
He was subsequently arraigned before a Magistrate Court sitting in Oshodi, where he was found guilty and sentenced to three months in prison.
The Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Mr. Tokunbo Wahab, who provided the update, wrote on his official X handle: “Following the arrest of Mr Morufudeen Idowu who assaulted one of our personnels and refused arrest while crossing the expressway at Ojota, he was arraigned before the Magistrate Court sitting at Oshodi, and sentenced to 3 months imprisonment.”
Despite the Lagos State Government spending millions of naira to build pedestrian bridges in strategic locations across the state, aimed at reducing human and vehicular interaction on highways, most Lagosians risk their lives daily crossing highways instead of making use of these bridges.
Although crossing highways is illegal in the state, people have continued to flout the law, which has led to renewed commitment by the government to punish offenders.
‘Canadian Returnee’ Jailed Three Months For Injuring Lagos KAI Official is first published on The Whistler Newspaper
