A High Court in Ifo, Ogun State, has offered to the singer Habeeb Okikiola, also known as Portable.
According to the NEWSCATCH, Portable was arrested on Friday, March 31, 2023, following a confrontation with police officers at his establishment, during which one of them was reportedly hurt.
On Monday, the performer was charged and presented in court.
Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the Force Public Relations Officer, stated that the contentious artist would face more than six counts in court. Portable was given bail in the amount of N300,000 and was required to provide two sureties with landed properties in the court's vicinity.
"That you, Badmus Habeebat Okikiola, M, A.KA Portable, and others now at large on the 28th day of March, 2023 at 11am at Odogwu Bar, Oke-Osa, Ilogbo, Ifo in the Ifo Magisterial District did willfully cause or inflict physical injury on one Inspector Hammed Moshood'm' with your elbow on his nose which caused blood to gush out from his nose and thus committed an offense contrary to and punishable under Section 4 (1) of the Violence against persons & Prohibition Laws of Ogun State of Nigeria, 2017.
That you, Badmus Okikiola A.KA. Portable, on the same date, time, and location in the aforementioned Magisterial District did not submit to arrest by Inspector Hammed Moshood "m," ASP Gregory Iyoha "m," and ASP Kunle Badmus "m" after they served you with a police invitation letter on the 20th day of January, 2023 for the offenses you committed when they were about to discharge their duty with a warrant of arrest on you, consequently committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 197 of the Criminal Code Laws of Ogun State of Nigeria, 2006.
Adodo Destiny, Portable's counsel, had asked the judge to release the prisoner on bail.
Magistrate A.S Shoneye awarded parole with a bail fee of N300,000 and two sureties who must dwell within the purview of the august court in his decision on his counsel's application for bail. The judge, however, ordered that the offender be moved to the Ilaro correctional facility until his bail conditions were fulfilled.
The case was postponed until April 26 for the start of the trial. SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the state Police Public Relations Officer, told media on Friday at the command's offices in Eleweran, Abeokuta, that Portable was detained for reportedly assaulting one Osimusi Emmanuel. Portable also attacked and assaulted police agents who arrived to his establishment to apprehend him, according to Oyeyemi.
