Alleged assault: Ogun govt vows to deal with Portable
Following an alleged assault of some officials of the Ogun State Planning and Development Permit Authority by controversial singer, Habeeb Okikiola, known as Portable, the state government has vowed to address the issue properly.
The hip-hop artiste and some of his ‘boys’ had on Wednesday assaulted the officials at his bar in Iyana Ilogbo, Ota while they were performing their duties.
The officials assaulted were identified as town planners Ramon Lateef, Akinpelumi Oyero, and Abidemi Onabanjo.
Reacting to the incident, Governor Dapo Abiodun, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Kayode Akinmade, described Portable as a “serial dissident and unrepentant rascal”.
Akinmade said the “indecent act” would be addressed according to the law. He added that Portable’s actions are becoming “shameful and intolerable” to locals and the government, given the “chaos and fear” he incites.
“We are profoundly taken aback by the unpleasant and uncivil act of the hip-hop artiste, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, on Wednesday, in the Iyana-Ilogbo area of the State where his bar is located.
“The way in which Portable and some miscreants he employed in the dastardly act attacked the officials of the OGPDPA is not only bizarre but a confirmation of the erosion of Omoluabi ethos in those individuals and indeed a great disgrace to the state.
“Governor Dapo Abiodun totally condemned this primitive and indecent act and reiterated his avowed commitment to a just and egalitarian society as he is ready to make any individual flouting the extant law of the land face the full wrath of the law irrespective of social status and influence,” the statement concluded.
