A
commercial bus driver, Mr Idris Shittu, on Saturday allegedly attacked a task
force operative, Sergeant Adepoju Oluwasogo, with an iron rod during the
environmental sanitation.
Oluwasogo,
who is attached to Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Task Force),
is in hospital.
According
to the task force Chairman, Olubukola Abe, a Superintendent of Police (SP),
Oluwasogo was among the security team on patrol during the exercise.
Abe
led other management staff to visit Oluwasogo at the Emergency Ward at Lagos
State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja.
Abe
said the driver of a bus marked XX643GX who was held for alleged violation of
sanitation laws, reportedly drove the police officer to an undisclosed location
in Alapere, Ketu and assaulted him. The police officer, he claimed was
“thoroughly beaten up and injured with iron-rod on his left eye and his right
shoulder”.
Oluwasogo’s
right shoulder was dislocated when he was rescued by other Task Force patrol
team.
The
task force claimed that Shittu blamed the devil for the act, quoting him as
saying that he never intended to hit Oluwasogo with the iron-rod.
Abe
appealed to motorists to always comply with the Lagos State Traffic and Lagos
State Environmental Sanitation Laws.
Also
yesterday, the Environmental and Special Offences Enforcement Unit said it
arrested 36 persons for environmental offences during Saturday’s exercise.
A
statement by Mr Adebayo Taofiq, the Public Affairs Officer, quoted Abe as
saying that 30 men and six women were arrested and charged to court.
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