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Lagos Millionaire Arrested For Beating Up 2 Police Women On Duty At Iju In Agege Lagos
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Oct 24, 2016 – Lagos Millionaire Arrested For Beating Up 2 Police Women On Duty In Fagba Agege Lagos
Lagos Police command today arraigned a 41-year-old businessman, Olawunmi Oladele, at an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly fighting and beating two policewomen.
Oladele, a well known philanthropist living at Fagba area of Lagos, is being tried for breach of peace and assault.
The Prosecutor, Insp. George Nwosu told the court that the accused committed the offences on Oct. 12 at Iju in Agege, near Lagos.
He alleged that the accused and one other person now at large, unlawfully assaulted two policewomen Insp. Patricia Okhide and Sgt. Funmilayo Adeamo, fighting and beating them while they were performing their lawful duties.
Nwosu told the court that the accused allegedly obstructed the complainants from arresting one Mrs. Kemi Saka now at large.
“The complainants were controlling traffic when they arrested Saka for blocking the road with her car and prevented other road users from having right of way.
“They ordered Saka to follow them to the station but the accused who was only a passerby stopped and interrupted, telling Saka not to obey their instructions.
“In the process, Saka escaped with her car and the accused was arrested but he resisted arrest and was beating and fighting the policewomen in order to avoid arrest.”
Nwosu said the offences contravened Sections 166 and 172 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
Section 172 prescribes four-year jail term for offenders if found guilty.
The accused, however, pleaded not guilty.
The Magistrate, Mr. A.A. Adesanya, granted the accused bail in the sum of N50, 000 with two sureties in like sum.
Adesanya adjourned the case till Dec. 7 for mention
D Hunter
October 24, 2016 at 3:07 PM
He should face the music that he had switched on for himself.
I take a stroll…
ebuka
October 24, 2016 at 3:41 PM
Wahala don’t burst.
Bok
October 24, 2016 at 4:03 PM
I know Naija women are something else but beating a police officer, no that is not acceptable
fifelomo
October 24, 2016 at 4:28 PM
Wonder shall never end. She mix Igbo with akamu?
Metu Nyetu
October 24, 2016 at 5:47 PM
DID I hear he’s a philanthropist! Ok, I get it. It was in the spirit of philanthropy that he stopped to intervene in a case that did not concern him. But what I am not sure about is whether or not that same spirit was still in him when he decided to be rude and brutal towards the police officers. Or shouldn’t police officers benefit from human sympathy like their fellow humans?
Omokehinde
October 24, 2016 at 6:32 PM
Beating up two policewomen is a criminal act aNY where in the world, however, Nigerian Police officers have lost their respect and dignity to bribery and corruption i our lawless society. The accused acted in an unlawful manner by taking laws into his own hands, but I want to believe that those two female officers were in the process of extorting money from the escaped female driver that led to the unlawful intervention of the accused. Regardless of the intention of those two female police officers, no law abiding citizen will beat up police officers for any reason. I guess that he will pay dearly for his actions and bad judgment.
spayor
October 24, 2016 at 10:12 PM
Too bad
ade eagle
October 24, 2016 at 11:54 PM
above the law
Omo oba.
October 25, 2016 at 5:12 AM
The guy needed to pay for his stupidity.. FOR THE FACT that he raised his dirty hands on someone else wife and not only that he also rendered Nigeria’s law to nothing by beating an officer on uniform..
Please let him pay for his actions…AgbaIya, Ole, Odoko..Asewo…Omoale..
sola olaniyi
October 25, 2016 at 10:23 AM
your comment make sense@Omokehinde
Juliet
October 25, 2016 at 3:37 PM
That is what the Nigeria police has reduced itself to through bribery. People no longer respect the institution.