Police Give 48-Hour Ultimatum To Portable Over Threat To Life

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The Ogun State Police Command on Monday have asked controversial Nigerian singer Habeeb Okikiola, better known as ‘Portable’ to report himself to the closest police station immediately or risk arrest.

The command disclosed that this was in response to a viral video where Portable ordered a bunch of youths to beat up a young man at a yet-to-be-identified location in Ogun State.

In the now-viral video, the singer disclosed that the victim of the attack offended him earlier but he forgave him after several pleas.

The victim came under attack after he allegedly called Portable’s wife, saying, “tell your husband to send all those boys around him away as they are not destined to make it.”

This prompted the attack in which the victim reportedly sustained bodily injuries following the attack.

The police, however, frowned at the development, describing it as “barbaric.”

The police spokesperson in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, through a statement, ordered the Zaazu crooner to report to the nearest police station or risk being arrested.

The statement read in part: “The attention of Ogun State Police Command has been drawn to a video clip circulating on social media where a famous hip-hop musician Habeeb Okikiola a.k.a Portable, the Zazu crooner was seen organising some youths to beat up a young man and inflicting bodily injury on him.

“The incident was said to have taken place somewhere within Ogun State about two days ago. Such unruly and violent behaviour is not only barbaric but unbecoming of somebody who is supposed to be a role model for the youths and should not be tolerated.”

The police insist that if Portable’s unruly behaviour is not checked, the same act will send wrong signals to the youths.

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.”

Given 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”.

This is not the first time that Portable will be having skirmishes with the law. Since his rise to fame in December 2021, barely a week passed by without Portable making the news headlines for the wrong reasons.

Portable recently apologised to Smooth Productions, organisers of popular Nigerian music awards, The Headies, who condemned his outburst concerning the nominations.

The controversial artiste had threatened the lives of fellow nominees contending with him in the Best Street-Hop Artiste and Rookie of the Year awards, according to the nomination list.

“Those are my awards; anybody who wins will ask for them to be killed. I will ask them to kill the person. If the organisers give my prize to someone else, they will die,” he said in Yoruba.

Oyinlola Awonuga
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Oyinlola Awonuga is a trained journalist with skill-set and experience in content curation, content creation, and management across various digital channels . Awonuga is passionate about Entertainment, Style, Fashion and Sports as niche specialties, and she is involved in consistent engagements on various social media platforms, with steady followers online. Her works have also received appreciable recognition from Media Career Development Network, and at her spare time, she monitors developments and reports on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria. She loves reading, tracking updates on Entertainment, Style and Sports, and staying abreast of global digital developments.

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