BREAKING: Nigerian Police Ask Court For 21 Days To Detain Seun Kuti, Claim ‘Assaulted’ Policeman Is In Coma At Undisclosed Hospital

The court is at this time on recess as the Chief Justice of the Peace, Mrs Adeola Olatunbosun, acknowledged she used to be “finding out the file.”

The Nigeria Police Power, Lagos Screech expose has requested the court for a remand expose to detain Afrobeat musician, Seun Kuti, for 21 days after it earlier secretly arraigned him at the Yaba Justice of the Peace Court without notifying his lawyers.

SaharaReporters also learnt that the police prosecutors claimed at the Justice of the Peace Court that the assaulted policeman used to be in a coma, and used to be receiving medication at an undisclosed scientific institution.

Within the meantime, the court is at this time on recess as the Chief Justice of the Peace, Mrs Adeola Olatunbosun, acknowledged she used to be “finding out the file.”

Talking with SaharaReporters, a are awaiting at the court acknowledged, “The Chief Justice of the Peace Mrs, Adeola Olatunbosun Justice of the Peace Court 1 Yaba took assertion 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 scientific institution.

“Alternatively, Kuti’s attorney, Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika countered that the police already stated publicly that the police officer trailed and went to Seun’s home and accepted N12,000 to repair his automotive. It also emerged that the DCP in Panti had long gone to meet the Justice of the Peace earlier sooner than secretly transferring Seun to the court without notifying his attorney.

“As well they accused Seun of no longer writing a press liberate, but Olumide-Fusika countered that he used to be there when Seun wrote a press liberate. The Chief Justice of the Peace made up our minds to shuffle on recess to ‘survey the file.’”

SaharaReporters earlier reported that the Justice of the Peace Court started sitting by 12pm, but Seun Kuti and his lawyers, who had purchased wind of the police secret arraignment, had been already in court.

“The police hold moved Seun Kuti to the Yaba Justice of the Peace Court for arraignment without notifying his lawyers. The magistrate is sitting by 12noon, but Seun and his lawyers are already in court,” a provide had printed.

SaharaReporters earlier reported that Kuti urged the police personnel in Yaba, Lagos Screech that he would no longer volunteer any assertion for the reason that Lagos Screech Police Public Relatives Officer, Mr. Benjamin Hundeyin, had already concluded his investigation and printed the identical document in the media.

Kuti, speaking by plan of his attorney, Olumide-Fusika, SAN, in an update on Tuesday morning, successfully-known that he would “at the just time and standing” defend himself against Hundeyin’s printed “investigative findings.”

SaharaReporters on Monday evening reported that the police at the Lagos Screech Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Panti refused to grant Seun Kuti bail after their futile strive to trick him into writing a press liberate that could perhaps well implicate him in the case of an alleged assault on a police officer. 

SaharaReporters had learnt that his attorney requested the police to grant the musician bail but the are awaiting of used to be rejected below the pretext that they had been yet to enact with their investigation. 

Seun Kuti, son of Afrobeat tale, Fela Kuti used to be on Monday arrested and handcuffed following his seek the advice of with to the affirm police expose.

SaharaReporters earlier reported that the musician kept 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 used to be alternatively arrested, handcuffed by the police and moved to SCIID, Panti for interrogation. 

SaharaReporters had also reported that the police grew to become Seun Kuti’s seek the advice of with in firm along with his attorney, Olumide-Fusika, exact into a public spectacle, with hundreds of officers taunting and mocking him as he walked by.