22-Year-Old Lady Sentenced To 7 Months Imprisonment For Assaulting Lagos Govt Official

A 22-year-old lady identified as Fasia Ajoke, has been sentenced to seven months and three weeks imprisonment with the option of N80,000 fine for assaulting an unnamed female operative of the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) popularly known as KAI.

She was arraigned before Chief Magistrate S.A Adefioye of the Lagos State Special Offences (Mobile Court), Bolade-Oshodi on offences bordering on conducting herself in a manner likely to breach peace and obstruction.

It was gathered that Ajoke on Wednesday assaulted the official who was on lawful duty, resisted arrest and refused to make use of the Ile-Epo pedestrian bridge, thereby endangering her life in the process.

This was disclosed by the Corps Marshal of LAGESC, Major Olaniyi Olatunbosun Cole (rtd) at the agency’s command headquarters, Bolade-Oshodi.

‘‘It is rather unfortunate that despite how much efforts our operatives have exhausted on making pedestrian bridges free of hindrances, some people are bent on breaking the law and assaulting officers on lawful duty which would not be tolerated in its entirety,” Cole said.

He reaffirmed the resolve of the state to prosecute anyone found breaking the State Environmental Laws, adding that the law would take its full course on any defaulter that assaults the agency’s operatives on lawful duty.

Recall that the state Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Mr. Tokunbo Wahab, early in February, ordered the Corp Marshal of LAGESC, and other law enforcement agents to arrest anyone found crossing the highway in the state.

According to Wahab, those arrested crossing the highway would be prosecuted immediately.

“Crossing the highway is an offence in Lagos State. Lagos State government has given a marching order to the @LAGESCOfficial (KAI) Marshall and other law enforcement officials to arrest anyone crossing the highway and then charge them to court immediately,” the commissioner had said via his verified X handle.

Despite the Lagos 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.

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