A 22-year-old woman named Fasia Ajoke has been given a seven-month and three-week prison sentence by the Special Offences Court at Bolade-Oshodi. This is for attacking a female officer of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps while she was working.
The state Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, shared this information in a post on his X handle on Thursday.
Wahab mentioned that Ajoke was also found guilty of resisting arrest and not using the pedestrian bridge.
His post stated, “The Special Offences Court at Bolade-Oshodi today convicted a 22-year-old woman, Fasia Ajoke, to seven months and three weeks in jail. This is because she attacked a female officer of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (KAI) #LAGESCOfficial while the officer was carrying out her duties. Ajoke also resisted lawful arrest and refused to use the Ile-Epo pedestrian bridge, thereby putting her life at risk.
“She was brought before Chief Magistrate S.A Adefioye of the Lagos State Special Offences (Mobile Court), Bolade-Oshodi for charges relating to behaving in a way that could disturb the peace, obstructing and disturbing the peace by crossing the highway.”
The commissioner urged residents to refrain from attacking environmental officers and to prioritize using pedestrian bridges.
He wrote, “We encourage all law-abiding residents of Lagos to avoid assaulting our environmental officers and to use the pedestrian bridges. The state will take legal action against anyone who violates the law.”
The PUNCH reported on Tuesday that the Lagos State Government arrested seven individuals for supposedly attacking environmental officials during the removal of shanties and illegal structures along the Jakande Estate in the state. miscreants It had also reported in February that the government considers it an offense for
pedestrians to cross major highways in the state, and added that any offender caught will be prosecuted. pedestrians as an offence adding that any defaulter caught will be prosecuted.
