A Twitter user has narrated how a Nigerian man was sentenced to a 5-day mandatory mental evaluation for crossing an expressway in UAE.
According to the Twitter user who is based in Abu Dhabi, UAE the man in question crossed an express road instead of using a pedestrian bridge, and was nabbed by a Criminal Investigations Department (CID) official.
However, instead of being fined he was sentenced to a Federal Government hospital for mental evaluation.
Narrating the man’s ordeal, the Twitter user wrote,
“I pick this Nigerian every morning on my way to work, for 5 days I didn’t see him. This morning I saw and asked why I didn’t see him, he said, bros, since you don dey carry me, shey I resemble or act like person wey mad or don mad? I said no. He said he crossed the main road instead
Of using the pedestrian bridge and was caught by a CID. Instead of getting a fine, he gave him a 5-day mandatory mental evaluation at the fed govt hospital. He asked why he did that and he said, only a mentally deranged person will leave a pedestrian bridge to cross an express road”.
