OndoReporter | Bus conductor wounds passenger’s scrotum over fare

OndoReporter | Bus conductor wounds passenger’s scrotum over fare

A bus conductor, Taheed Adekunle, who was
accused of damaging a passenger’s scrotum
during dispute over transportation fare, was
remanded in prison by a Tinubu Magistrate’s
Court in Lagos yesterday.

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, Assistant Superintendent
Ignatius Okeke, told the court that the accused
committed the offence on March 12 at about
5:50p.m., 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 hospital with swollen scrotum,
adding that the offence contravened Section
171 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

The magistrate adjourned the case till March
21 for sentencing, before he adjourned the
case to April 12