Officers of the Nigeria Customs Services, Federal Operations Unit in Ikeja, at the weekend attacked a magistrate of the Lagos State Mobile Court, Magistrate Lekan Aka-Bashorun, and carted away court exhibits with recording gadgets.
In the ensuing melee, a fully armed Nigerian Customs Assistant ‘1’, Mr. Yusuf S. S, with Service No. 48730 and a card No. 368, attached to the Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘A’ Ikeja, allegedly slapped Magistrate Lekan Aka-Bashorun, for ordering his court officials to impound some Nigerian Custom officers’ private vehicles for traffic offences.
Other officers further beat up two para-military officials and rough handled two Superintendents of Police attached to Lagos State Task Force, Supol Sunday Ikharere and Supol Adeloye Okunola.
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The officers of the Nigerian Customs Service who trooped out en-mass violently reacted towards operatives of the Lagos Mobile Courts, claiming they were Federal Government agency and were fully exempted from any of the state government laws, particularly the Lagos State Road Traffic Laws of 2012.
The operatives of the court had commenced its operations from Allen Avenue at Ikeja, impounding both commercial and private vehicles for various traffic offences down to Nigeria Customs Operations Unit, Ikeja area, where private vehicles were flagrantly parked along the walkways beside an illegal car wash despite a ‘NO PARKING’ sign printed by the management of the Nigerian Customs on the walls of the premises.
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