Nigerians have taken to social media to react to the nine-month sentencing of a man, identified as Paul, for assaulting personnel of the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps, News About Nigeria reports.
The state Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, made the arrest and sentence known in a post on his X handle on Thursday.
He disclosed that Paul was sentenced by a mobile court in Oshodi on April 17 for not using a pedestrian bridge and assaulting an official of the state government in the Agbado Oke Odo area of Lagos State.
“Paul was apprehended on April 16 for not using the pedestrian bridge at Agbado Oke Odo, and in the process, he assaulted and wounded the enforcement personnel of LAGESCOfficial (KAI).
“The mobile court sitting at Oshodi yesterday sentenced him to nine months imprisonment.” Wahab wrote.
However, Netizens have taken to social media to commend the move of the government in curbing disobedience and what they described as the disregard for the laws of the state.
@LionessofIjebu said, “Just obey the law ooooo, anyways this will serve as an example and should deter future resistance to arrest or assaulting law enforcement officers when caught!
“Look at the cost of disobeying the law with so much entitlement has landed a grown man and probably a husband and a father in prison.”
Recall that the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources had recently warned residents against shunning pedestrian bridges, as it described the crossing of major highways in the state by pedestrians as an offence.
