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The Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja on Thursday convicted and sentenced a commercial bus driver, Elijah Shokoya to 12 years imprisonment for killing an officer of the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency (LASTMA). Justice Oyindamola Ogala sentenced Shokoya after ruling that the prosecution, the Lagos State Government, had proven beyond a reasonable doubt the one-count charge of manslaughter brought against the driver for the death of a LASTMA officer, Olawale Akinmade. Akinmade died on January 27, 2012. The judge declared, “The prosecution has established beyond reasonable doubt that the de…

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