A 54-year-old radio
journalist, Pius-Junior Opute ,(a.k. a .OPJ), who was allegedly caught peeing
in a drainage and resisting arrest, on Tuesday appeared before a Tinubu
Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.
The accused, who lives at
41, Adeba St., Lakowe, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State, is facing a two-count charge
of urinating in a drainage and resisting arrest.
The prosecutor, Sgt.
Daniel Ighodalo, told the court that the offences were committed on May 12 at
about 8.00 p.m. at Marwa Bus Stop, Lekki.
Ighodalo said that OPJ, a
staff member of Wazobia 95.1 FM, was caught urinating at
Marwa Bus Stop, Lekki.
Opute resisted arrest and
obstructed a free flow of traffic around the Lekki Toll Plaza, he added.
Ighodalo said the offences
contravened Sections 117 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011 and Chapter
E5, (9e) of the Environmental Sanitation Law of Lagos State ,2011.
The accused pleaded not
guilty to the charges.
The Magistrate, Mrs
Olaitan Ajayi, granted the accused bail in the sum of N20, 000 with one surety
in like sum and adjourned the case to June 18 for further hearing.
SOURCE NAN