Nigerian Police Plot To Take Afrobeat Musician, Seun Kuti To Neuropsychiatric Hospital In Ogun Amid Protests
Recall that a Sabo-Yaba Chief Magistrates Court in Lagos presided over by Adeola Olatubosun granted the police’s application for an extension of Seun Kuti’s remand for an extra four days.
The Nigeria Police Pressure, Lagos Exclaim yell, is plotting to guarantee that that the detained Afrobeat singer, Seun Kuti, is taken to the Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta, Ogun Exclaim, in uncover to certify that he is “mentally ailing.”
SaharaReporters had earlier reported that Seun Kuti refused to give out his blood to the police for medical examination after the yell obtained the magistrate to amend her ruling and safe their bidding.
“The police are attempting to grab the Afrobeat musician to the Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta, Ogun Exclaim to uncover him mentally ailing. You would possibly maybe take into consideration what that can quandary off his musical profession in Nigeria and out of the country,” a source told TheNews on Monday.
Recall that a Sabo-Yaba Chief Magistrates Court in Lagos presided over by Adeola Olatubosun granted the police’s application for an extension of Seun Kuti’s remand for an extra four days.
On Can also honest 13, he became once charged with assaulting a police officer on Lagos’ Third Mainland Bridge.
In accordance to the documents connected, the application became once moved by Simon Lough (SAN), who led a police correct workforce to courtroom.
He acknowledged, “The extension is to permit extra investigation into the case. We would possibly maybe per chance additionally no longer cessation investigation in 2 days, we now request of for extra 4 days to permit us to cessation the investigation.”
A more in-depth review at the doc ragged to safe Seun’s blood unearths that the courtroom “extra orders the applicant to safe a medical doctor to look at the Respondent as supplied in piece 5(6) Administration of Criminal Justice Regulation, 2015.”
SaharaReporters earlier reported that the #FreeSeunKuti campaign asked the Nigeria Police Pressure to plunge what it described as trumped-up charges against Kuti, and initiating him from detention as he has met his bail stipulations.
The campaign is being supported by the African Action Congress (AAC), the Childhood Rights Campaign (YRC), the Circulation of the People (MOP), the Socialist Equality Circulation (SEM), the Circulation for African Emancipation (MAE), Workers and Childhood Team spirit Community (WYSN) as well to various individuals.
The campaign had made the request of in a statement launched by social activist, Francis Nwapa, in which he known as on Nigerian youths, workers and the frequent public to be a part of within the #FreeSeunKuti campaign and the courtroom sitting on Can also honest 23, 2023 at the Justice of the Peace Court at Yaba, Lagos Exclaim.
In accordance to Nwapa, “The campaign is to verbalize and request of that every trumped-up charges of Seun Kuti be dropped on tale of we mediate he has met all bail stipulations. The campaign shall be against the inferior assaults the Nigeria Police Pressure (NPF) unleashes each day on individuals’s democratic rights.
“The verbalize shall withhold in Lagos, Abuja, and London the next day (Tuesday). And we’re going to accept as true with a rally and demonstrations across these cities and various locations successfully-that diagram Nigerian formative years need to organise peacefully.”
