An Abuja-based legal practitioner and human rights activist, Deji Adeyanju, has berated operatives of the Lagos State Command of the Nigeria Police Force for allegedly humiliating a controversial singer, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, in a bid to arrest him over a civil matter.
DAILY POST had earlier reported Portable ’s arrest on Tuesday over a failed car purchase deal following his alleged refusal to pay the debt he incurred when he purchased a G-Wagon from a car dealer. According to reports, Portable , during the purchase of the vehicle worth N27 million, paid only N13 million and had refused to pay the N14 million balance on the pretext that the car was faulty.
Habeeb Okikiola was seen being humiliated by persons suspected to be officers of the Nigerian Police Force, in an attempt to forcefully arrest him over a civil matter. “The unnecessary show of force employed by the officers in the arrest of a non violent Nigerian citizen over a civil dispute, stands condemned.
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