BREAKING: Court Grants Bail To Musician, Seun Kuti, Orders Nigerian Police To Complete Investigation In Two Days

SaharaReporters learnt that the Chief Justice of the Peace moreover requested the police to get rid of themselves from prosecuting him. 

The Chief Justice of the Peace Courtroom in Yaba, Lagos has granted bail to Afrobeat musician, Seun Kuti. 

The court docket moreover ordered the Nigerian police to attract their investigation into the alleged assault of a policeman in forty eight hours and permit Kuti to head house. 

“The court docket grants police forty eight hours to total ‘their investigations’ after which Kuti could well presumably maybe moreover even be left to head house on bail. 

“Kuti’s bail is with two sureties who must be with landed property in Lagos,” a requirement said. 

SaharaReporters learnt that the Chief Justice of the Peace moreover requested the police to get rid of themselves from prosecuting him. 

She directed that the case file could well presumably maybe moreover aloof be duplicated and forwarded to the Lagos Declare Directorate of Public Prosecutions for prosecution. 

SaharaReporters had reported that the police prosecutors claimed at the Justice of the Peace Courtroom that the assaulted policeman become in a coma, and become receiving remedy at an undisclosed clinic.

Talking with SaharaReporters, a requirement at the court docket had said, “The Chief Justice of the Peace Mrs, Adeola Olatunbosun Justice of the Peace Courtroom 1 Yaba took reveal from the Nigerian police making exercise of to detain Seun Kuti for 21 days, claiming the policeman he allegedly assaulted is in a coma at an undisclosed clinic.

“On the assorted hand, Kuti’s lawyer, Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika countered that the police already said publicly that the police officer trailed and went to Seun’s house and authorised N12,000 to repair his automobile. It moreover emerged that the DCP in Panti had long previous to meet the Justice of the Peace earlier sooner than secretly transferring Seun to the court docket without notifying his lawyer.

“They moreover accused Seun of no longer writing an announcement, but Olumide-Fusika countered that he become there when Seun wrote an announcement. The Chief Justice of the Peace made up our minds to head on recess to “observe the file.””

SaharaReporters earlier reported that the Justice of the Peace Courtroom began sitting by 12 pm, but Seun Kuti and his attorneys, who had bought wind of the secret arraignment, had been already in court docket.

“The police have moved Seun Kuti to the Yaba Justice of the Peace Courtroom for arraignment without notifying his attorneys. The magistrate is sitting by 12noon, but Seun and his attorneys are already in court docket,” a source had revealed.

SaharaReporters earlier reported that Kuti advised the police personnel in Yaba, Lagos Declare that he would no longer volunteer any reveal for the reason that Lagos Declare Police Public Family Officer, Mr. Benjamin Hundeyin, had already concluded his investigation and printed the the same document within the media.

Kuti, talking thru his lawyer, Olumide-Fusika, SAN, in an update on Tuesday morning, illustrious that he would “at the correct time and space” defend himself in opposition to Hundeyin’s printed “investigative findings.”

SaharaReporters on Monday night reported that the police at the Lagos Declare Prison Investigation and Intelligence Division, Panti refused to grant Seun Kuti bail after their futile strive to trick him into writing an announcement that could well presumably maybe implicate him within the case of an alleged assault on a police officer. 

SaharaReporters had learnt that his lawyer requested the police to grant the musician bail however the inquire become rejected beneath the pretext that they had been yet to end with their investigation. 

Seun Kuti, son of Afrobeat sage, Fela Kuti become on Monday arrested and handcuffed following his take a look at with to the sing police expose.

SaharaReporters earlier reported that the musician saved his observe 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 become nonetheless arrested, handcuffed by the police and moved to SCIID, Panti for interrogation.