BY TIMOTHY AGBOR
An Ogun State Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ifo has granted Habeeb Okikiola, the controversial singer popularly known as Portable, bail in the case of alleged assault and resistance of arrest slammed against him by the Police.
Portable had been detained at the police headquarters on Friday after ignoring many invitations before he was arraigned on Monday.
He was accused of assaulting a police officer while resisting arrest.
Portable was also alleged to have beaten one of his boys.
Part of that charges slammed against him read, “That you Badmus Habeeb Okikiola, aka Portable, and others now at large on the 28th day of March 2023 at 11:00hrs 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 thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 4 (1) of the Violence against persons & Prohibition Laws of Ogun State of Nigeria, 2017.
“That you Badmus Habeeb Okikiola, M. aka Portable, on the same date, time and place in the aforementioned Magisterial District did resist to be arrested by Inspector Hammed Moshood ‘m’, ASP Gregory Iyoha ‘m’, ASP Kunle Badmus ‘m’ after serving you with Police Invitation Letter on the 20th day of January, 2023 for the offences you committed when they were about to discharge their duty with warrant of arrest on you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 197 of the Criminal Code Laws of Ogun State of Nigeria, 2006.”
The defendant pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him.
He was granted bail in the sum of N300,000 with two sureties in the same amount after his counsels pleaded with the court and promised to ensure he stands his trial.
