The Nigeria Police Force, Lagos
State command has asked the
court for a remand order to
detain Afrobeat musician, Seun
Kuti, for 21 days after it earlier
secretly arraigned him at the Yaba
Magistrate Court without notifying
his lawyers.

SaharaReporters also learnt that the
police prosecutors claimed at the
Magistrate Court that the assaulted
policeman was in a coma, and was
receiving treatment at an
undisclosed hospital.

Meanwhile, the court is presently on
recess as the Chief Magistrate, Mrs
Adeola Olatunbosun, said she was
“studying the file.”

Speaking with SaharaReporters, a
witness at the court said, “The Chief
Magistrate Mrs, Adeola Olatunbosun
Magistrate Court 1 Yaba took
statement from the Nigerian police
applying to detain Seun Kuti for 21
days, claiming the policeman he
allegedly assaulted is in a coma at an
undisclosed hospital.

“However, Kuti’s lawyer, Adeyinka
Olumide-Fusika countered that the
police already stated publicly that
the police officer trailed and went to
Seun's house and accepted N12,000
to repair his car. It also emerged that
the DCP in Panti had gone to meet
the Magistrate earlier before secretly
moving Seun to the court without
notifying his lawyer.

“They also accused Seun of not
writing a statement, but Olumide-
Fusika countered that he was there
when Seun wrote a statement. The
Chief Magistrate decided to go on
recess to 'study the file.'”

SaharaReporters earlier reported that
the Magistrate Court began sitting by
12pm, but Seun Kuti and his lawyers,
who had got wind of the police
secret arraignment, were already in
court.

“The police have moved Seun Kuti to
the Yaba Magistrate Court for
arraignment without notifying his
lawyers. The magistrate is sitting by
12noon, but Seun and his lawyers are
already in court,” a source had
revealed.

SaharaReporters earlier reported that
Kuti told the police personnel in
Yaba, Lagos State that he would not
volunteer any statement since the
Lagos State Police Public Relations
Officer, Mr. Benjamin Hundeyin, had
already concluded his investigation
and published the same report in the
media.

Kuti, speaking through his lawyer,
Olumide-Fusika, SAN, in an update
on Tuesday morning, noted that he
would “at the right time and place”
defend himself against Hundeyin’s
published “investigative findings.”
SaharaReporters on Monday night
reported that the police at the Lagos
State Criminal Investigation and
Intelligence Department, Panti
refused to grant Seun Kuti bail after
their futile attempt to trick him into
writing a statement that would
implicate him in the case of an
alleged assault on a police officer.
SaharaReporters had learnt that his
lawyer asked the police to grant the
musician bail but the request was
rejected under the pretext that they
were yet to conclude with their
investigation.

Seun Kuti, son of Afrobeat legend,
Fela Kuti was on Monday arrested
and handcuffed following his visit to
the state police command.
SaharaReporters earlier reported that
the musician kept his word that he
would cooperate with the police by
turning himself in on Monday to
cooperate with the investigation into
the allegation that he assaulted a
policeman as captured in a viral
video.

He was however arrested,
handcuffed by the police and moved
to SCIID, Panti for interrogation.
SaharaReporters had also reported
that the police turned Seun Kuti's
visit in company with his lawyer,
Olumide-Fusika, into a public
spectacle, with hundreds of officers
taunting and mocking him as he
walked by.

Lai Lai police

That small slap. That police man should be removed from the police force..He's obviously not strong. Just small slap and they said he is in coma..But I have never seen any victim of Nigerian police brutality that went into coma.

Na the workings

It must have been the video of Seun Kuti bragging about slapping Police Officers that infuriated them

But they didn’t need to lie the videos alone are enough to jail Seun

after all Fela self go jail many times

It would even give him something new to sing about

Seun too shouldn’t have lied that the Police Officer tried to kill him and his family


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVhUuyMzG3I


https://twitter.com/benhundeyin/status/1658466210932199424/mediaviewer

No source, so I disagree with this report.

But if the report is true, then no doubt, the public sympathy being enjoyed by the police will be withdrawn immediately because that is a very fat lie.

It seems the Police wan really Deal with Seun Kuti

LeoDeKing:
No source, so I disagree with this report.

But if the report is true, then no doubt, the public sympathy being enjoyed by the police will be withdrawn immediately because that is a very fat lie.

Read!!! You didn't see Sahara reporters?

MasterJayJay:


Read!!! You didn't see Sahara reporters?

Is that how to provide source? So how do I click to verify this report on saharareporters site.