By Wale Oluokun
An Abeokuta resident, Ms. Nosimot Alalade has been arraigned before a Chief Magistrates’ Court at Isabo on a three-count charge of assault; conduct likely to breach public peace and endangering the life of staff of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company while on duty.
The defendant residing at Number Five, Amadiya Street, Olomore area of Abeokuta was brought to court by the prosecutor, Ms. Olaide Rawlings.
The prosecutor explained to the court that Ms. Alalade assaulted the staff of the distribution company, Mr. Silas Olaleye by pushing him from a ladder while performing his duty which had caused him a permanent injury to the right leg.
The prosecutor explained that the staff of the Electricity Distribution Company and his team had asked for Ms. Alalade”s electricity bill and could not produce it prompting the order to disconnect her building.
Ms. Rawlings said that the defendant later in anger pushed the complainant off the ladder from where he sustained the injury on his right leg.
The prosecutor told the court that the offences contravened Sections 338, 343, 355 and 249 of the Criminal Code of Ogun State of 2006.
The defendant, Ms Alalade in her plea however told the court that she was not guilty to the charges.
The Magistrate, Mrs. Osinbajo, later granted the defendant bail in the sum of a hundred thousand and surety in like sum and adjourned the case to twenty-eight of April for trial.
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