A 36-year-old Chef, John Akpan, has been arraigned before a Yaba Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Lagos for removing a policeman’s teeth by head-butting him.
The incident occurred at Olojojo, Oworonshoki area of Lagos on Saturday at about 5.50 pm during an argument between Akpan and the policeman, identified as Insp Atoe Frederick.
Trouble was said to have started when Akpan refused to heed the inspector’s orders, degenerating into a misunderstanding leading to the suspect head-butting the policeman.
Akpan was arraigned on a one count charge on Monday.
The charge read, “That you, John Akpan, on June 20, 2015, along Olojojo, Oworonshoki, Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did obstruct and assault AP No 154905 Inspector Atoe Frederick, attached to Oworonshoki Division while performing his lawful duty by giving him a headbutt resulting to the removal of one of his upper teeth, inflicting injury in his mouth and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 172 (B) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2011.
When the charge was read, Akpan pleaded not guilty while demanding for summary trial.
The Investigating Police Officer, Sergeant Femi Adesuwon, told the court that the victim was admitted at the General Hospital, Gbagada area of the state.
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs. A. O. Soladoye, granted the accused bail in the sum of N250, 000 with two sureties in like sum.
Soladoye adjourned the case till July 22 for further hearing.
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