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Mobile Court sentences traffic offender to sweep premises, cut grass for 5 days

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A Lagos mobile court has sentenced a commercial driver to five days of community service.
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A traffic offender, commercial bus driver named

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The Nation reports that Abiodun has been ordered to cut grass, and sweep the premises of an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos state.

Before the judgement was passed, the persecutor, Sergeant Ihiehie Lucky, read the bus driver's charges.

“The driver neglected the traffic direction of the traffic warden and blocked other road users. He also didn’t have a valid road worthiness document and a fire extinguisher in his vehicle when he was arrested,” he said.

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Lucky added that the accused had no driver's license.

The accused, Abiodun, pleaded guilty to the four-count charge, which included driving a bus, marked KRD 884 XL, without a valid certificate from the Ministry of Transportation (MOT).

O. Sule Amzat, the Magistrate, ordered the bus driver to pay N5, 000 on each charge to the Lagos State government, and complete a two-hour daily community service.

Amzat said the convict’s vehicle would only be released after the fines were paid and community service was done.

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