Three auto mechanics on Tuesday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court for allegedly locking up policemen who attempted to arrest them.
Afolabi Shittu (32), Isaac Abiodun (25) and Yinka Adekola (41) were charged with conspiracy, assault, unlawful damage and resisting arrest.
They, however, pleaded not guilty before Magistrate Teslim Elias, and were granted bail in the sum of N25,000 and one surety each.
The prosecutor, Insp. Barth Nwokenye, said the trio conspired and locked the policemen inside their mechanic workshop on Aug. 6 at the Mechanic Village, Idi Mangoro in Agege.
Nwokenye said the policemen came to arrest the accused following a report that they beat a female food vendor from whom they collected food and did not pay.
He said the food vendor, Mary Peters, who regularly supplied food to the mechanics, had reported the alleged assault to a police station where the policemen were attached.
The prosecutor said the accused beat Peters when she demanded for her money.
Nwokenye said the accused also damaged the front windscreen of a bus vehicle in which the policemen came to arrest them.
He said the vehicle with Registration No. XY 602 APP, belonged to one Ismaila Amusat, and that the windscreen was worth N8,000.
The prosecutor said the alleged offences were punishable under Sections 516, 351, 197, 145 and 451 of the Criminal Code of Lagos State.
The case has been adjourned till Sept. 9 for further hearing.
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