Priscilla Ofunre, Ado-Ekiti
A driver attached to The Punch newspapers, Joshua Momoh, and six others were sentenced by an Ado-Ekiti Magistrate’s Court for violating the lockdown order in Ekiti State.
Momoh was arrested in Ikere-Ekiti, on Sunday, for hiding six passengers inside his company’s vehicle while on a delivery assignment to the state.
Others arraigned alongside Momoh were Sesan Ajayi, Owoola Ilesanmi, Joseph Agboola, Adeyinka Toyosi, Alabi Bukola and Oluwatuyi Abiodun.
Director for Public Prosecution (DPP) in the state, Mr. Julius Ajibare, told the court that all the Defendants committed the offence on April 19 at about 8.00 am in Ikere-Ekiti.
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Momoh was found guilty for conveying six others with the vehicle of the newspaper house on two count charge.
Momoh would pay a fine of N30,000 on both charges and community services for two days.
The Chief Magistrate, Mr. Abdulhamid Lawal, sentenced all the Defendants, with 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 7th Defendants on Count 1 to the sum of N5,000 and two days community service each.
The 4th Defendant, Joseph Agboola, absconded on the way to the court and a Warrant of Arrest was issued against him by the court.
The 5th Defendant, Adeyinka Toyosi, said she was a nurse working in Lagos State at the National Orthopaedic hospital and a Nursing officer.
She was slammed with a fine of N2,000 for trying to use a restless means to get back to Lagos as an essential worker.
The DPP said the Defendants violated the provisions of Regulation 2 (1) (b) and punishable under Regulation 12 of the Ekiti State Coronavirus (Prevention of Infection) Regulations, 2020 made pursuant to section 8 of the Quarantine Act, Cap Q2, LFN, 2004.
