Report Yourself Immediately Or Risk Being Arrested – Nigeria Police Tells Portable (See Why)
Portable, a prominent singer, has been asked by the Ogun Police Command to report to the nearest police station immediately.
According to reports, in a video uploaded on social media, the artist punched his former Disc Jockey, DJ Chicken.
The singer’s real name is Habeeb Okikiola, and in the viral video, he orders his “guys” to beat up the DJ for supposedly sending a message to his wife.
In a statement sent to journalists in Abeokuta on Monday, Abimbola Oyeyemi, the command’s police spokesman, branded the incident as “barbaric” and ordered Portable to report to the nearest police station in the state.
He went on to say that if the singer does not comply, he risks being arrested.
The statement reads:
[wp_ad_camp_2]
“The attention of Ogun State Police Command has been drawn to a video clip circulating on social media where a popular hip-hop musician Habeeb Okikiola a.k.a Portable, the Zazu crooner was seen organising some youths to beat up a young man and inflict bodily injury on him.
“The incident was said to have taken place somewhere within Ogun State about two days ago. Such unruly and violent behavior is not only barbaric, but unbecoming of somebody who is supposed to be a role model for the youths and therefore should not be tolerated.
“In view of this, the Command is using this medium to advise Okikiola Habeeb a.k.a Portable to report himself at the nearest police station in Ogun State, failure of which his arrest will be ordered.
“The flagrant display of impunity by portable in the viral video is condemnable and if not checked, it will send a wrong signal to the youths who are looking up to him as a role model.
“Jungle justice has no place in our laws and whoever embarked on it must be made to feel the weight of the law, no matter the status of such a person.”
