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Portable arrested, detained, to be charged to court on Monday

Ogun State Police Command disclosed that it has arrested singer, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly called Portable, over an alleged assault on its officers.

According to SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), confirmed the arrest of the singer in a telephone interview at Abeokuta on Friday.

In his words, the singer is currently being held at the state headquarters of the police in Eleweran, Abeokuta.He explained that the police had extended invitation to the singer severally, after a citizen reported to the police that Portable assaulted him but added that the singer refused to honour the invitation.

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Furthermore,the police spokesman said that the singer would remain in police custody till Monday when he would be charged to court.On Tuesday, two videos of the musician assaulting some men of the Nigeria police surfaced on the internet.

“There is a petition against him from a Nigerian to the fact that the singer went and destroyed the person’s studio and ordered his boys to beat up the studio owner.He was beaten black and blue and that was the basis of the petition in the first instance.Based on that, an invitation letter was sent to him, not once, not twice, not three times, but he refused to honour the invitation.When he refused to honour the invitation, police officers were sent to effect his arrest and on getting there he assaulted the officers,”he said.

“But today, he has been arrested. He is with us. Investigation has commenced and as soon as we conclude our investigation, Okikiola will be charged to court,” he added.

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