A Benin tricycle operator identified as Adeshina Adeyemo has been given a three-month jailed term by a magistrate court for assaulting an official of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC).
Adeyemo was sentenced on Monday, for an offense committed in 2020.
He was arraigned with a case file number MEV/117C/2020 before Snr Magistrate F. Ojehumen of the Evbuoriaria Magistrate Court B on a two-count charge bordering on conducting himself in a manner likely to cause a breach of the public peace; and for maliciously damaging FRSC patrol vehicle during patrol operations along Sapele-Benin road on July 16, 2020.
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On the first charge, the accused is to pay N5,000 or one-month imprisonment, and N45,000 or two months imprisonment for the second charge, and both sentences are to run concurrently.
Reacting to the judgment, the Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi, commended the judiciary for quick dispensation of justice.
The FRSC boss noted that this, like other judgments, is an indication and strong warning to perpetrators that no member of the public who damages FRSC property, no matter how small, will be spared.
While lamenting the attacks on FRSC personnel which often result in the loss of lives of patrolmen on the highways, the corps marshal warned the motoring community to desist from attacking the corps personnel or face the wrath of the law.
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