No fewer than seven persons
were, Saturday, arrested in
Abeokuta, the Ogun State
capital for allegedly beating
up policemen during the
monthly environmental
sanitation exercise.
Vanguard learnt that the
incident occurred at Elite
road, Idi-Aba, where the
suspects were alleged to
have contravened the
sanitation exercise law.
According to an eye witness
two policemen who were
accompanying the officials
of the ministry of
environment to monitor the
exercise were assaulted by
seven suspects after allegedly
acting contrary to the
sanitation exercise
scheduled between 7am and
10am.
It was gathered that the
suspects considered the
police enffontery to have
questioned them as
insulting, tearing the
policemen uniform and
seized their berets.
However, the police
reportedly left the scene for
reinforcement and
subsequently returned to the
scene to effect the arrest of
the suspects.
Those arrested are: Adebisi
Kazeem,Kasumu
Azeez,Kasumu Anifat,Kasumu
Nofiu,Kasumu
Busayo,Adekunle Semiu and
Segun(popularly called Osoba
Kekere)
The arrested suspects were
later driven in police patrol
van to the mobile court,as at
the time of filing this report
to face penalty over their
offences.
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