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

In a statement on Friday spokesperson for the Lagos State Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, Kunle Adeshina, said Idowu pleaded guilty when the charge was read to him, and was subsequently convicted for the offenses before he was sentenced.

Speaking in reaction to the conviction, the Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr 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. (The Guardian: Text, Excluding Headline)