A 34-year-old woman in Ibadan, Nosimot Alalade, has been arraigned before a Abeokuta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Isabo for assaulting a staff of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, IBEDC.
The defendant is facing a three-count charge of assault. The prosecutor, Inspector Olaide Rawlings, told the court that the defendant committed the offences on April 12 at about 1p.m. at Olomore area of Abeokuta.
Rawlings said the defendant assaulted one Silas Olaleye by pushing him from a ladder while performing his law duty, which caused him permanent injury on his right leg.
She said that the complainant, who is an IBEDC staff, and his team, were assigned to Olomore area for routine check of IBEDC bill and meters. And when the complaint got to the defendant’s house and asked for bill, she could not produce it.
The defendant was said to have pushed the Ibadan staff from the pole when he climbed the pole to disconnect the cable that carried light to the defendant’s house.
Rawlings said that the complainant fell down from the ladder and sustained an open injury on his right leg.
She said the defendant also acted in manner which endangered the life of the complainant and also conducted herself in a manner likely to cause breach of public peace by pushing Olaleye while on lawful duty.
According to her, the offences contravene Sections 338, 343, 355 and 249 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Ogun State, 2006.
The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The Magistrate, Mrs M.O. Osinbajo, granted the defendant bail in the sum of N100,000, with one surety in like sum.
She, thereafter, adjourned the case till April 28 for trial. (NAN)
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