Portable will remain in police custody till Monday when he will be charged in court.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Ogun State Police Command has arrested singer, Habeeb Okikiola aka Portable following his refusal to turn himself in for questioning.
He was on Tuesday given 72 hours to submit to the police.
Policemen from the Ogun State Police Command stormed his bar on Tuesday over an allegation that he assaulted a man but the singer resisted and instead went live on Instagram.
In the video, Portable claimed that an internet fraudster had brought the police to his bar to arrest staff members “for no reason.”
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Confirming his arrest on Friday, the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said Portable is at the state headquarters of the police in Eleweran, Abeokuta.
Oyeyemi further said the ‘Zazu Zeh’ singer was arrested after refusing five invitations.
Portable will remain in police custody till Monday when he will be charged in court, Premium Times gathered.
The singer had admitted assaulting the person who brought policemen to arrest him over an issue related to internet fraud.
Explaining what transpired in a new video shared on his Tiktok page, he maintained that the alleged fraudster he assaulted was his apprentice and that it was a personal matter that should not have involved the authorities.
“This boy is my boy. He’s into Yahoo (internet fraud). I advised him to quit but he still dey do the scam dey go. Then I pursued him. I beat him. I flogged him. Now you want to arrest me because I flogged him? He come to write a petition about me, about a celebrity superstar,” he said.
