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Portable Meets Bail Conditions, Regains Freedom.
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Portable freed from prison after meeting bail conditions.
Habeeb Okikiola, also known as Portable, has been freed from jail after being detained there while his bail conditions were being fulfilled.
Mp3bullet.ng that Portable was taken into jail by police on Friday, March 31, and was later charged with resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer.
Nonetheless, the musician was given bail by a high court in Ifo, Ogun State.
He was given a bail bond in the amount of N300,000 and was required to submit two sureties who owned landed properties close to the court.
Nonetheless, the court decided that the defendant should go to the Ilaro Correctional Facility while his bail conditions were being satisfied.
Adodo Destiny, the lawyer for Portable, told PUNCHNG reporter that he had been released.
“Yes, he’s home now. In fact, I am still in his house with my lawyers,” Adodo confirmed in a text sent to a PUNCH correspondent.
Charges against Portable
Portable had pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against him in the court.
The charges against portable read, “That you, Badmus Habeebat Okikiola, M, A.KA Portable, and others now at large on the 28th day of March, 2023 at 11am at Odogwu Bar, Oke-Osa, Ilogbo, Ifo in the Ifo Magisterial District did willfully 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 Okikiola A.KA 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 20 day of January, 2023 for the offences you committed when they were about to discharge their duty with 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 case was adjourned till April 26 for the commencement of trial.