A 45-year-old man, Jonathan Ukonwe has been sentenced to 30 days imprisonment for not wearing a face mask and resisting arrest. 

Ukonwe was arraigned before an Osun State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Osogbo on three counts bordering on resisting arrest, deliberate refusal to wear nose mask and assault. 

The convict pleaded guilty to two counts while he pleaded not guilty to the offense of assault of one Meshack Funmilola, a member of the Hunters Group of Nigeria currently working for Amotekun Corps. 

The Magistrate, Mr Opeyemi Badmus convicted and sentenced Ukonwe to 30 days imprisonment or a fine of 15,000 naira on the two counts.

However, he admitted him to bail on the third count of assault with the sum of 500,000 naira with two sureties in like sum.

Earlier, the police prosecutor, Mr Abiodun Fagboyinbo, told the court that Ukonwe committed the offence on 1 July 2020 at about 10:30 AM at Olaiya Junction Area, Osogbo. 

He said the convict intentionally resisted arrest following his deliberate refusal to wear a face mask in the public thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under sections 203 and 249(D) of the Criminal Code Cap 34 Vol.ll Laws of Osun State of Nigeria 2002. 

Mr Fagboyinbo also alleged that the convict assaulted one Mrs Meshack Funmilola of the Hunters Group of Nigeria while performing her lawful duty on the enforcement of the use of face mask and thereby committed an offence contrary to (2) and punishable under section 356 (2) of Criminal Code Cap 34 Vol. Il Laws of Osun State of Nigeria 2020. 

Adenitan Akinola