Update: Canada returnee bags three months jail term for assaulting Lagos govt official

A Magistrate court sitting in Bolade, Oshodi on Friday sentenced one 52 years old, Canadian returnee, Mr Morufudeen Idowu to three months imprisonment for crossing the Ojota Expressway, resisting arrest and assaulting a KAI officer in the process.

Idowu, who pleaded guilty when the charge was read to him, was subsequently convicted for the offenses and sentenced.

Speaking in reaction to the conviction, Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, warned that the State will not tolerate any attack or acts of aggression towards any of its operatives on lawful duty.

He reiterated that all such operatives would be protected with the full force of the law in the discharge of their duties.

Wahab expressed the optimism that the latest conviction will serve as a deterrence to everyone that social status or standing will not be a determinant in the application of the law.