For impersonating as an officer of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) and extorting money from unsuspecting motorists, particularly commercial bus drivers, the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Mobile) Court, sitting at Bolade, Oshodi, Lagos, has sentenced one David Oluchukwu, to four months imprisonment.
It would be recalled that operatives of LASTMA had on Wednesday, December 14, 2022, arrested the 27-year-old Oluchukwu around the Lekki area of Lagos while committing the crime.
Oluchukwu was accordingly arraigned before the court by LASTMA on a two-count charge of “Conduct likely to cause a breach of peace and Impersonation.”
In a statement by the Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA, Mr. Adebayo Taofiq, Magistrate Adesanya Ademola sentenced Oluchukwu to the jail term without any option of fine after he pleaded ‘Guilty’ to the two-count charge instituted against him.
Taofiq quoted the Magistrate as saying that the convict should serve the jail term without any option of fine due to the gravity of the offences committed.
Earlier before the court slammed the jail term, the prosecutor, Agbaje Oladotun, had maintained that both offences levied against the convict (Breach of Peace and Impersonation) contravened Section 168 (D) and Section 78 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State (2015) respectively.
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