Nigerian federal lawmaker-elect debunks assault on hawker

A House of Representatives member-elect, Tunji Akinosi alleged to have knocked down a hawker in Lagos Street has debunked the allegation, saying the hawker was been economical with the truth, and aimed to smear his personality.

Penpushing reports that Akinosi who was elected a federal lawmaker under the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC), Ogun State Chapter explained that contrary to the video being circulated in a social media on the said crash, said there was no accident.

The politician in his explanation said there was traffic along the Onikan axis due to the May Day celebration, and in an attempt to outwit each other, the hawkers were everywhere and along the hustling, one of them ran into his car side mirror and damaged it.

Penpushing further reports that Akinosi said, immediately his driver stopped to pick the remains, the hawker fell on the floor claiming he had a broken leg, sensing the damage and expenses involved, adding that the said hawker later apologized for the damage of the car side mirror

‘There was no accident, not to say there was a clash, you therefore need to ask the rationale behind the question, “Can you see our lawmaker to be?  The first thing that should ordinarily come to our mind is that we are all Nigerians, and more importantly, a lawmaker-elect, hence should protect and defend the citizens before any other thing. I cannot oppress any citizen, rather protect such from any oppression”, he stated

‘There was traffic along the Onikan axis due to the May Day celebration, and in an attempt to out wit each other, the hawkers were everywhere and along the hustling, one of them ran into my car side mirror and damaged it, immediately my driver stopped to pick the remains, the hawker fell on the floor claiming he had a broken leg, sensing the damage and expenses involved’.

“Before you know what was going on, some individuals surrounded my car banging on the owner’s side asking me to come down that  I had hit and wounded a hawker, but I answered them that my driver was already attending to the matter’, he explained.

‘A lady emerged from nowhere and shouting on top of her voice that she knows me and trying to disclose my identity. When the matter was becoming rowdy, I opted for two options, first was that, we will all first move to the police station to lodge a formal complaints and from there, to the General Hospital, Onikan, ready to pay all the bills if he is discovered to have a fractured leg and secondly, if he is not diagnosed of such, he will buy the complete set of my car side mirror’.

“On hearing my options, the hawker jumped up begging me to allow him continue with his hawking, saying it was those people that asked him to pretend he had a fractured leg.  The question is, as a lawmaker-elect, are we not entitled to some rights too or does it derobe us of being a Nigerian?. ”

Penpushing reports that Akinosi who noted that the video making the rounds was done in a bad taste and an attempt to smear his personality, however, advised the general public to always be kind, gentle and reasonable in their action to any incident, rather than creating a mob environment.

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