An
Abeokuta Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Isabo, on Friday, remanded
a truck driver, Nurudeen Bashir in prison custody for allegedly
assaulting a Vehicle Inspection Officer in Abeokuta, Ogun State. Bashir
was accused of inflicting injuries on a motorcyclist while attempting to
escape from the VIO. The prosecutor, Inspector Bukky Abolade, told the
court that the accused was stopped by the VIO on duty last Wednesday at
Aro in Abeokuta, but failed to produce his vehicle documents. Abolade
explained that Bashir drove one of the officials who entered his vehicle
to Oke-Ata, where he and others at large assaulted the official. The
Chief Magistrate, Adeola Adelaja, ordered that Bashir be remanded in the
prison custody till December 14, when his application would be
considered.