A Lagos trader who beat up a policewoman who detained her sister has been arraigned before an Magistrate Court. A Lagos trader who beat up a policewoman who detained her sister has been arraigned before an Magistrate Court.
Mrs. Clara Ossai around 11:30am on that fateful day attacked the Sergeant Grace Agede while trying to prevent her from detaining her sister, Stella Amarikwa, who was arrested for stealing.
Ossai reportedly held the policewoman by the neck and punched her in the mouth.
Agede’s
colleagues at the counter of the Gowon Estate Police Division were said
to have intervened, after which Ossai, was detained alongside her
sister.
The Imo State born trader was afterwards
arraigned before a Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ijaye-Ojokoro for
facing two counts bordering on assault.
A police prosecutor, Inspector Benson Emuerhi, arraigned Ossai before a magistrate, Mrs. T. Akani, for causing breach of peace at the station and harming the sergeant.
“That
you, Clara Ossai, 28, on February 11, 2015, at about 11.30am, at the
Gowon Estate Police Station, in the Ikeja Magisterial District, did
behave in a disorderly manner by shouting in the charge-room, creating
unnecessary scene and disturbing the peace of the station and thereby
committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 166 (B) of
the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2011.
That
you, Clara Ossai, on the same date, time and place in the
aforementioned magisterial district, did assault one Sergeant Grace
Agede while in police uniform and performing her lawful duty by beating
her up and inflicting injury on her lips and thereby committed an
offence contrary to and punishable under Section 172 (B) of the Criminal
Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2011,” the charges reads.
Mrs. Ossiai was bailed in the sum of N100, 000 with a surety in like sum so as she would be able to feed her baby.
The case was adjourned till Friday, March 13, 2015.
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