Traffic Law violation: Commercial bus driver bags 12 weeks imprisonment
FRANCIS IWUCHUKWU
A Magistrates' Court sitting in Ojokoro has sentenced a commercial bus driver, Kazeem Abiodun to 12 weeks imprisonment or pay a N50,000 fine for violating traffic laws.
The 32-year old convict, was sentenced consequent upon his guilty plea to a six-count charge offence before Magistrate Taiwo Akanni
According to the Magistrate, "Having admitted the facts of the six-count charge offence, the accused, is found guilty as charged and accordingly convicted. You are hereby sentenced to 12 weeks imprisonment or pay a fine of N50, 000."
It would be recalled that the prosecutor, Inspector Lugard Ahonle, had informed the judge that Abiodun committed the offences on February 23 on Lagos/Abeokuta Expressway. Ahonle added that, "Adedotun who was driving a Volkswagen commercial bus picked passengers at unauthorised bus-stop, had no road worthiness certificate and Hackney carriage paper."
The prosecutor said the offences offends the provision of Sections 26, 33, 45 and 56 of the Road Traffic Act.
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