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Uzuokwu was brought before Magistrate Bambo Oduoke but the matter could not go on as he had no lawyer to represent him.
The magistrate therefore ordered the remand of the defendant in Kirikiri correctional centre pending the time he gets a defense counsel
The matter was adjourned till April 27.
18-year-old Solomon allegedly called the emergency line of the Fire Service on Friday, April 14, 2023 at 5:35pm from Harmony Estate in the Ajah area of the state and reported a fire emergency within the estate leading to the activation of emergency processes and eventual dispatch of the fire trucks from Lekki Phase II Fire Service Station.
The Deputy Director, Public Affairs of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Ololade Agboola, who confirmed this in a statement on Tuesday night said, “On arrival, it was discovered that there was no fire incident in the estate. Because of the frequency of such calls in the past, the estate security helped in the investigation which led to the arrest of the notorious false caller.
She further disclosed in the statement that the offence was punishable under the Lagos State Fire Service Law and Command and Control Centre Law 2013.
Uzuokwu, however, risks a three-year jail term if found guilty of the offences preferred against him.
The matter was adjourned till April 27.
18-year-old Solomon allegedly called the emergency line of the Fire Service on Friday, April 14, 2023 at 5:35pm from Harmony Estate in the Ajah area of the state and reported a fire emergency within the estate leading to the activation of emergency processes and eventual dispatch of the fire trucks from Lekki Phase II Fire Service Station.
The Deputy Director, Public Affairs of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Ololade Agboola, who confirmed this in a statement on Tuesday night said, “On arrival, it was discovered that there was no fire incident in the estate. Because of the frequency of such calls in the past, the estate security helped in the investigation which led to the arrest of the notorious false caller.
She further disclosed in the statement that the offence was punishable under the Lagos State Fire Service Law and Command and Control Centre Law 2013.
Uzuokwu, however, risks a three-year jail term if found guilty of the offences preferred against him.
The law, under Prohibition of Hoax Calls, states that, ” No person shall, unless for the purpose of informing the Centre of the occurrence of any of the events stipulated under section 4(a) of this Law, call the emergency telephone numbers of the Centre.”
With respect to the penalty, the Law stipulated that, “Any person who knowingly gives or causes to be given a false alarm to a person acting on behalf of the Centre, or who uses emergency telephone lines in any way other than those stipulated in section 10, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of five hundred thousand Naira {500,000.00) or to imprisonment for a term of three (3) years or in addition to any sentence imposed by virtue of this Section, the Court may order the offender to perform community service for such period as the Court may determine.”
With respect to the penalty, the Law stipulated that, “Any person who knowingly gives or causes to be given a false alarm to a person acting on behalf of the Centre, or who uses emergency telephone lines in any way other than those stipulated in section 10, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of five hundred thousand Naira {500,000.00) or to imprisonment for a term of three (3) years or in addition to any sentence imposed by virtue of this Section, the Court may order the offender to perform community service for such period as the Court may determine.”
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Wonders will never end, I wonder what got into him
ReplyDeleteWhat an expensive joke, See where your mischief and ignorance has brought you at this young age. May God come through for you and your poor parents.
ReplyDeleteIs there no clause or provision for the underage in the law?
ReplyDeleteHow is 18 'underage'?
DeleteIs 18 not allowed to vote?
Is 18 not allowed to drive?
18 year old don't buy condom and contraceptive?
When it's crime, they are now 'underage'? No be only 'underage', na tata nau.
Can 18 year old buy alcohol legally ? Can they smoke ? Legally.
DeleteIs kirikiri not a maximum security prison?
ReplyDeleteReally! And they can't pardon hin after a stern warning.
ReplyDeleteSo sad
How did they know he was the one that made previous calls?
ReplyDeleteThey did not arrest him because they suspect him to have made those previous calls but to make a scapegoat for this e who make such prank/ hoax calls.
DeleteEezi
How old are you people lolll.
DeleteYou don't know that your calls can be traced.
You don't know that your service provider can provide a record of all your calls even from 10 years ago?
Gosh.🤦♀️
Trouble day sleep yanga go wake am..
ReplyDeleteThat teen play too much, see where his too much play has landed him
ReplyDeleteMaybe as they said remanded he will be in the juvenile arm of kirikiri .
ReplyDeleteBut miss Ess you mean a fire service who activated fire trucks to come and quench fire only for it to be hoax, shld be treated with laxity no .
What if tmrw there is a real fire maybe market or a house with pple trapped and they did not come thinking that it's one of those false alarm , how do you think pple in pains shld feel concerning fire service , sometimws let's put our emotions or sentiments aside and be realistic let this country be great again.
Reducing his sentence is ok, him doing a community service is ok or any other punishable offence not all that strong for a boy of his age shld be meted out to him
Let him learn that's how to treat pple so that tmrw he will know that he is responsible for his tions it's not everything we go treat anyhow , let him not grow tmrw and be a burden to the society
* Ifynwa*
God bless you jare, because he is IPOB we should look the other side.
Delete3 years in prison. (Maximum prison) for a hoax call is way too much. I can fully understand him being punished, but 3 years in prison? Haba.
ReplyDeleteHe should be fined with community service, his sympathizers can come up with the money while he does community service. KiriKiri is likely to make him a full blown criminal if he stays there too long. Besides this pic does not seem like an 18 year old.
ReplyDeleteuna get fire service? Nigeria is improving. I remember decades ago, if house dey burn, everyone go begin gather bucket fetch water begin quench fire, fire service dey arrive after the house burn finish, if them manage come earlier, they start work and gbam them go say water don finish them need to go fetch more water, everybody go carry hand put for head dey cry because that na the end of their work, by the time wey them find water go sokoto come back to Lagos, the house don burn finiish.
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