Police arrest 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 present himself for allegedly refusing to honour a police invitation following an alleged assault.

According to information obtained by our correspondent, the musician will remain in police detention until Monday, when he will be charged with a crime.

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

The PUNCH claims that two videos from earlier on Tuesday showed the musician cursing and kicking some police officers at his Odogu bar in the Sango Ota district of Ogun State.

Following his alleged transgression, the Force Headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday disclosed that the singer's action was unruly and his act was punished by law through its spokesperson, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi.

After this, the spokesperson for the Ogun State Police Command, Oyeyemi, issued a press release requesting that the singer turn himself up at any state police station within 72 hours or face being arrested by the police.

However, Portable asserted in both videos that an accused Internet fraudster had visited his bar and called the police to have him and his employees arrested "for no reason."

Oyeyemi explained that Portable ignored five invitations that were given directly to him and another that came through his father, prompting the police to move to arrest him.

He added that the Zazu singer's invitation came as a result of a petition from a young studio owner who alleged that Portable and his assistants had shut his studio and beaten him into a stupor.

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