BREAKING: Ogun State Police Arrests Portable For Assault

The Ogun State Police Command has detained popular singer Habeeb Okikiola, also known as Portable, after giving him a 72-hour deadline to turn himself in for allegedly refusing to honor a police summons following an alleged assault.

According to information obtained by our correspondent, the singer will stay in police custody until Monday, when he will be charged with a crime.

Abimbola Oyeyemi, the state police public relations officer, responded to Portable’s detention on Friday by confirming to The PUNCH that the contentious singer had been taken into custody and was being allowed to cool off at the state police headquarters in Eleweran, Abeokuta.

The PUNCH reports that earlier on Tuesday, two videos surfaced on the Internet showing the musician raining curses and manhandling some police officers at his Odogu bar located in the Sango Ota area of Ogun State.

Following his alleged misconduct, the Force Headquarters in Abuja, through its spokesperson, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, on Wednesday, revealed that the singer’s action was unruly and his act punishable under the law.

This was immediately followed by a press statement by the spokesperson for the Ogun State Police Command, Oyeyemi, asking the singer to either turn himself in at any police station in the state within 72 hours, or face police arrest once the ultimatum elapsed.

However, in both videos, Portable claimed that an alleged Internet fraudster had brought the police officers to his bar to arrest him and his staff members “for no reason.”

Oyeyemi explained that the police moved to arrest Portable after five invites were sent to him and another through his father, but he never honoured any of the summons.

He further said the Zazu crooner was invited following a petition by a young studio owner who claimed that Portable together with his aides beat him up to stupor and locked his studio.

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