A 52-year-old Canada returnee, Morufudeen Idowu, has been arrested for allegedly assaulting an official of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC), popularly known as KAI, along the busy Ojota corridor, has been sentenced to three months imprisonment by a Magistrate Court in Oshodi.
Idowu was sentenced for physically attacking the officer during routine enforcement operations in the area.
He reportedly assaulted the male officer, who had attempted to stop him from crossing the expressway, thereby preventing the official from carrying out his duties for the day.
According to the Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, the assaulted officer was among those deployed to enforce compliance in the area.
The enforcement exercise involved arresting individuals caught crossing the highway instead of using the pedestrian bridges provided to reduce accidents along the axis.
“Mr. Morufudeen Idowu, 52 years old and a Canada returnee, refused arrest and assaulted one of our personnel while crossing the expressway at Ojota,” Wahab said.
“He has been taken into custody at the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps office in Oshodi and will be prosecuted in accordance with the relevant laws of the state,” he added.
“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.
