OndoReporter | Bus conductor in prison for allegedly damaging passenger’s scrotum

OndoReporter | Bus conductor in prison for allegedly damaging passenger’s scrotum

Lagos - A bus conductor, Taheed Adekunle,
who was accused of damaging a passenger's
scrotum during dispute over transportation
fare, was on Thursday remanded in prison by a
Tinubu Magistrates' Court in Lagos.

Adekunle, 19, of no fixed address, pleaded
guilty to a charge of assault.

The Magistrate, Mr Ade Adefulire, ordered that
the accused should be remanded in Kirikiri
Prisons till the next date of adjournment for
fact and sentencing.

The Prosecutor, ASP Ignatius Okeke, told the
court that the accused committed the offence
on March 12 at about 5:50pm at Ajah Motor
Park in Lagos.

Okeke said that the accused during a dispute
with a passenger, Samuel Amosun, over the
high price of transportation fare from Ajah to
Oshodi, kicked Amosun in the scrotum.
He said that the victim was presently on
admission in the hospital with swollen
scrotum.

Okeke said that the offence contravened
Section 171 of the Criminal Law of Lagos
State, 2011.

The Magistrate adjourned the case till March
21 for sentencing