Portable Sentenced to Three Months in Prison for Assault, Obstruction

A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Ifo, Ogun State, has sentenced popular street-hop singer Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, to three months in prison.

However, the court gave the artist the option of paying a N30,000 fine in lieu of serving the full term.

Portable was found guilty of assaulting a police officer and obstructing the execution of an arrest warrant.

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The musician was apprehended in March 2023 after he physically attacked a police inspector and prevented law enforcement officers from carrying out their duty.

During the hearing, Police Prosecutor Inspector Olumide Awoleke told the court that the offense occurred on November 18, 2022, around 11:00 am at Okeosa, Ilogbo, within the Ifo Magisterial District.

According to the charge sheet:
“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 offense contrary to and punishable under Section 517 of the Criminal Code Laws of Ogun State 2006.”

It also read:
“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 offense contrary to and punishable under Section 351 of the Criminal Code Laws of Ogun State of Nigeria 2006.”

A third charge stated:
“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 offense contrary to Sections 384 and 383 and punishable under Section 390 of the Criminal Code Laws of Ogun State, Nigeria, 2006.”

Delivering judgment, Chief Magistrate Babajide Ilo found Portable guilty on two of the charges. The court imposed a one-month prison sentence for Count 1, with the option of a N10,000 fine, and a two-month sentence for Count 2, with an option of a N20,000 fine.