ABEOKUTA – An Abeokuta Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting at Isabo on Friday sentenced a 54-year-old driver, Lateef Yekini, to one month in prison for disobeying court order.
Yekini’s conviction followed his plea of guilty to the order of the court forbidding him from parading himself as chairman of Amalgamated Commercial Motorcycles Owners and Riders Association of Nigeria (ACOMORAN) in Abeokuta.
He also flouted the order stopping him from printing or selling tickets of the association to commercial motorcycle operators or forcing them to buy them before they could be allowed to operate daily.
The order was made on March 1, 2012 and Yekini was said to have returned to the roads of Abeokuta on April 1, 2012, forcing commercial motorcycles riders to buy tickets.
The prosecutor, ASP Banji Sangotokun, had told the court that the convict who resides at 10, Akindele Street, Sabo, Abeokuta, intentionally disrespected the order by returning to the road to sell tickets and pose as chairman of the riders’ association.
“The accused, a former secretary of the group, allegedly printed the ACOMORAN and the Ogun State Parks and Garages Development Board revenue tickets which he forcibly imposed on riders to buy before working for the day.
“I can see that Yekini has the intention of forcibly taking over the leadership of the ACOMORAN group,” Sangotokun told the court.
He said that the offence contravened Section 133 (9) of the Criminal Law of Ogun, 2006.
The Chief Magistrate, Mr Anthony Araba, who convicted him and sentenced him to one- month jail term, said that the sentence was without a fine option. (NAN)
