A couple, Clinton and Ayobami Adebayo, has been remanded in prison custody by a court in Lagos for assaulting policemen who accosted them for driving a vehicle without number plates.
SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Lagos made the disclosure in a statement on Monday via Twitter.
He said that the police officers accosted the couple for driving a vehicle without number plates in the Oluwaga, Ipaja area of the state at 2:30 pm on Sunday.
According to the police spokesman, the couple instead of cooperating proceeded to assault the police officers. the Tweets read
Yesterday, July 24, 2022 at about 2:30pm, police officers of Ipaja Division flagged down a Mercedes Benz car for not having number plates at Oluwaga-Ipaja. A passenger, Mrs Adebayo Ayobami aggressively and disdainfully questioned why the police officers stopped her husband and not other vehicles. She, thereafter declined to answer any question. In an attempt to get them to the station for further questioning owing to their unprovoked aggressiveness and suspicious behavior, she and her husband, Ayobami Clinton assaulted the police officers.
The car was impounded. They were arraigned today; and the court remanded them at Kirikiri prison.
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