POLICE TO PORTABLE: Submit yourself, everybody knows you are a wanted person  

The Ogun State Police Command has urged controversial Nigerian singer Habeeb Okikiola, aka Portable, to submit himself because everybody knows he is a wanted man.

The declaration by the police came after Portable claimed in a video shared on February 18, that he is mentally unstable and he is currently undergoing psychiatric treatment at the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta, in Ogun State.

In a statement released on Wednesday, Omolola Odutola, the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), insisted that Portable must turn himself in to the police so that they may conduct an investigation into allegations leveled against him. 

“Portable will come and submit himself. He cannot be in the psychiatric hospital in Aro. Everybody knows he is a wanted person. If he is in any facility, the police must be informed. He is a wanted man,” Odutola said.

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Recall that the Ogun State Police Command officially declared Portable wanted for an alleged attack on officials from the Ogun State Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development while carrying out their lawful duties.

The wanted circular was issued on Monday by Odutola, who claimed that Portable had led thugs to violently attack three government officials on February 5.

Odutola alleged that the musician and his associates attacked the officials, TPL Onabanjo Abidemi, TPL Raymond Lateef, and TPL Ridwan Oyero Akinlesi, while they were conducting an enforcement exercise at his bar in Oke-Osa, Tigbo Ilu Ota, Sango Ota, when they came across an elderly man who was later identified as Portable’s father.

According to the police spokesperson’s statement, Portable has been evading arrest since the incident, even after being invited several times to appear before the police.

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