Court jails driver 6 months for traffic violations, assaulting marshals
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Marshal
By Kevin Okunzuwa
Ekiadolor(Edo), March 24, 2017(NAN) A mobile court, sitting in Ekiadolor, Edo, on Friday sentenced a bus driver, Joshua Willie to six months imprisonment for assaulting Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) marshals on duty.
The FRSC prosecutor, Mr Presley Orhue, said the accused was arraigned on a 10-count charge of traffic violation and assaulting marshals on duty.
He listed some of the traffic violations to include dangerous driving, vehicle licence, driver’s licence, speed limit, caution sign and assaulting marshals on duty.
Orhue said that the convict committed the offences on Tuesday, at 3:15 p.m. at Oluku bye-pass, near Benin.
He said the convict while driving a blue Toyota Hiace bus with registration number RM 400AAA, ignored a caution sign by FRSC officials to “pull over.
“Instead, he hit marshal on duty as he tried to evade arrest.
“And in an attempt to evade arrest, drove dangerously and ended up hitting one of the arresting marshals.
“He again, engaged his vehicle gear in reverse, driving in a zig- zag manner and ran into the second arresting marshal,’’ Orhue told the court.
Sentencing the defendant, Chief Magistrate Esther Bazuaye, said the over whelming evidence of the witnesses proved the accused guilty as charged.
Bazuaye decried the action of Willie, but, however, gave him an option to pay N80,000 fine.
The magistrate further ordered him to pay for the medical expenses of the assaulted and injured FRSC officials, still receiving treatment at undisclosed hospital.(NAN)
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Edited by Obike Ukoh
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