Court Sentences Portable To Three Months in Prison for Assault, Theft
Controversial singer Habeeb Olalomi Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, has been convicted and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment by Chief Magistrate Babajide Ilo.
The judgement, delivered on Tuesday at the Magistrate Court in Ifo, Ogun State, found the singer guilty of assault and conspiracy to commit a felony.
OSUN DEFENDER reports that Portable was earlier arraigned in April 2023 on a three-count charge marked MIF/192C/2023, which included assault and the theft of musical equipment.
He had been granted bail of N300,000 with two sureties from his immediate family but failed to attend several court sessions, leading to his remand last Thursday.
According to the Police Prosecutor, Inspector Olumide Awoleke, the offences were committed on 18 November 2022 in Okeosa, Ilogbo, within the Ifo Magisterial District.
The charge sheet reads: “That you, Badmus Habeeb Okikiola, aka Portable, and others now at large, on the 18th day of November 2022 at 11:00 hrs, in Okeosa, Ilogbo, within the Ifo Magisterial District, did conspire among yourselves to commit felony, to wit: assault, and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 517 of the Criminal Code Laws of Ogun State 2006.
“That you, Habeeb Okikiola Olalomi, on the same date, time, and place in the aforementioned district, did unlawfully assault one Osimosu Emmanuel Oluwafemi (male) by beating him all over his body, thereby committing an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 351 of the Criminal Code Laws of Ogun State of Nigeria 2006.
“That you, Badmus Habeeb Okikiola, aka Portable, on various occasions in the year 2022, at Okeosa, Ilogbo, within the Ifo Magisterial District, did steal some musical equipment, including a Yamaha H55 studio monitor, a complete Studio 2 interface connection cable, and an AKG P420 condenser, thereby committing an offence contrary to Sections 384 and 383 and punishable under Section 390 of the Criminal Code Laws of Ogun State, Nigeria, 2006.”
Chief Magistrate Ilo ruled that the singer was guilty of counts 1 and 2.
He sentenced the defendant to one month’s imprisonment with an option of a N10,000 fine for Count 1 and two months’ imprisonment with an option of a N20,000 fine for Count 2.
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