Portable Now a Free Man After Perfecting Bail Conditions

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Controversial singer, Habeeb Okikiola, has been released after fulfilling his bail conditions.

Okikiola, also known as Portable, was arraigned in an Ogun State Magistrate’s Court in Ifo on Monday for alleged assault and theft.

The court had previously granted him bail in the amount of N800,000 for the three charges, with two sureties in the same amount.

The court ruled that the sureties must be landowners within the court’s jurisdiction.

Okikiola was transferred to the Ilaro Correctional Centre after failing to meet his bail conditions.

However, Victor Oyeleke, the Spokesman for the Nigerian Correctional Service in Ogun, confirmed to newsmen this evening that Portable had completed the bail conditions and had left the prison custody.

“He has perfected the bail conditions and he just left the custody,” Oyeleke said.

The case has since been adjourned to April 26 for the commencement of trial.

Portable pleads not guilty, granted bail

After making an appearance before an Ogun State Magistrate’s Court in Ifo, controversial singer Habeeb Okikiola, better known by his stage name Portable, was granted bail.

The artist had been detained at the police station since Friday after refusing to answer several summonses and putting up a struggle during the arrest.

When he appeared in court on Monday, Portable pleaded not guilty to all of the accusations made against him.

The charges reads in part, “That you Badmus Habeeb Okikiola, aka Portable, and others now at large on the 28″ day of March 2023 at 11:00hrs 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 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 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.”

He was, however, granted bail by the court.