A 46-year-old driver, Afolabi Lamidi, on Tuesday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly impersonating a lieutenant colonel in the army and flogging people with a horse whip aka koboko.
He pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge of breach of the peace and impersonation before Magistrate J. A. Adegun.
Prosecuting Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Clifford Ogu said the defendant committed the offence on June 17 at Pen-Cinema, Agege, Lagos.
He alleged that the defendant presented himself as an officer by wearing army uniform and assaulting people.
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“The defendant conducted himself in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace by flogging people at a motor park with a horse whip.
“When security officers questioned him, he claimed to be a lieutenant colonel in the army, but could not present his identity card.
“They discovered that the defendant was not a soldier and was taken to the station for interrogation,” the prosecutor said.
Adegun granted the defendant N50,000 bail with one surety in the like sum.
He said the surety should be employed and show evidence of two years tax payment to the Lagos State Government.
The case continues on August 8.
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