EXCLUSIVE: convicted portable, sentenced to three months of imprisonment with a fine option

Daud Olatunji

The controversial artist of the street, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as laptop, was sentenced for a position of three counts and sentenced to three months of imprisonment with an option of a fine n30,000.

The musician was declared guilty by a court of the magistrate sitting in Ifo, in the state of Ogun, for having attacked a police officer and resisting the arrest.

Portable was previously arrested in March 2023 after physically attacked a police inspector and the officers obstructed while trying to serve him a stopping mandate.

According to the judicial proceedings, the accusations played that the aggressive inspector Hammed Moshood al Odogwu Bar, Oke-Rai, Ilogbo, planted, together with others now in freedom, causing injuries to the officer’s nose. The law marks section 4 (1) of violence against people (prohibition) of the Ogun State law, 2017.

The second accusation declared that the musician resisted violently from the agents after being served a police invitation for previous crimes.

The action is said to violate section 197 of the law of the Criminal Code of the State of Ogun, 2006.

Previously the Court had granted the portable deposit, but according to reports, pushing the court to order its arrest.

In the end he was arrested last Thursday and postponed to custody until his appearance in court on Tuesday, where he was sentenced.

The spokesperson for the state correction of Ogun, Owolola Odukoya, confirmed the detention of laptops at the Ilaro corrective center from Thursday to Tuesday.

The court, after declaring it guilty, sentenced him to three months of imprisonment for all three reasons.

However, the sentence came with an option of a fine n30,000, which the musician would pay before he regained his freedom.

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