Lagos court jails 14 for attacking sanitation officers

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.

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.

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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.