Ogun police ask Portable to report self for alleged assault

By Kolawole Olayinka, Abeokuta

Ogun State Police Command has ordered popular musician, Habeeb Okikiola a.k.a Portable to report himself at a nearby police station for allegedly inflicting injury on a man.

This was made known by the command’s spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi in a statement on Monday.

The statement said: “The attention of the Ogun State Police Command has been drawn to a video clip circulating on social media where a popular hiphop musician, Habeeb Okikiola a.k.a Portable, the Zazu crooner was seen organizing some youths to beat up a young man and inflict bodily injury on him. 

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

“In view of 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.

“The flagrant display of impunity by Portable in the viral video is condemnable and if not checked, it will send a wrong signal to the youths who are looking up to him as a role model.

“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 person.”