Portable
According to the Nigeria Police Force, the controversial musician Habeeb Okikiola, also known as Portable, who is now being held by police, will stand trial for assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, and roughly six additional offenses.
The Force Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Olumuyiwa Adejobi, made this admission on Saturday morning.
PRISTINEGIST has learned that Portable will also go to trial for allegedly beating a young studio owner who had reported the incident to the police, in addition to the six other allegations that were not made public.
According to our correspondent, a recent viral video showed Portable resisting arrest by police inside his pub in the Sango-Otta neighborhood of Ogun State.
In the video, Portable claimed that a purported internet fraudster had asked police to detain him and harass the bar’s staff and customers.
He was detained by police in the state after he ignored a subsequent police invitation at the end of a 72-hour ultimatum issued against him.
The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed his arrest and imprisonment at the command headquarters, Eleweran, on Friday.
Adejobi stated on Twitter in response to inquiries regarding the promptness with which Portable’s case was handled by the police, “Portable has more than six count charges to attend to aside from resisting arrest and harming a cop.”
They “will be brought to court for knocking up a guy in Otta who fired a petition to CP Ogun,” the FPRO continued.
He added that “there are several open cases of attacks and assaults on people, and he will be looked into because many have complained about him.
There is no sentiment in the law, so let him show up in court and let the judge hear the accusations against him. In any case, he lacks constitutional immunity.
