HABEEB Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, was on Monday, April 3, 2023, granted bail after appearing before an Ogun State Magistrate Court sitting in Ifo, on a three-count charge bothering on assault and theft of musical equipment.
The singer was arrested on Friday, March 31, 2023, by police operatives after he had turned down a series of invitations extended to him.
The singer, before the arrest, had shared an Instagram live video claiming that some police personnel stormed his bar at Sango Ota at the request of an Internet fraudster (Yahoo Boy).
Part of the charges 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 wilfully 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 a 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 controversial singer was granted bail of N300,000, with two sureties who must be members of his immediate family.
