‘I didn’t assault officials, release my boys’

Controversial singer Habeeb ‘Transportable’ Okikiola has damaged his silence over the arrest and arraignment of 9 associates earlier than an Abeokuta Magistrates’ Courtroom in Ogun State on Friday.

PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that the 30-year-old went into hiding after the Ogun State Police Command arrested and arraigned his protégés for allegedly assaulting officers of the Ogun State Planning and Improvement Allow Authority (OGPDPA).

Transportable revealed that OGPDPA officers sealed his unfinished constructing and lodge in Sango-Ota, arrested and detained over 20 of his staff, and confiscated alcoholic drinks from his bar.

Talking from hiding in a sequence of movies on his Instagram web page on Saturday, the ‘Your Papa No Be Military’ crooner pleaded with the state authorities to launch his protégés.

The Ogun-born singer additional denied allegations of assaulting authorities officers, insisting that he was being unjustly focused.

He mentioned: “I didn’t combat anybody from the Ogun State Planning and Improvement Allow Authority (OGPDPA). I problem them to submit movies of the place I fought with them in my bar. The youngsters they arrested are innocent—they’re studying trades. I’m solely serving to them. Did they discover Indian hemp in my bar? No. As a substitute, they took telephones, drinks, and all the pieces inside.

“Please, I’m begging—launch my boys. Their mother and father wanted them, and I used to be solely serving to them. I’ve been brooding. Don’t push me to the purpose of suicide—I’m already reducing weight. These arrested are like household to me. Please launch these kids. I’ve finished nothing to deserve this.”

Raid

The ‘Spider-Man’ crooner, who gave the impression to be talking from hiding, alleged that authorities officers confiscated properties from his bar and injured his apprentice and clients.

Narrating how the incident unfolded, Transportable claimed he had been asleep earlier than speeding to the scene, saying, “The federal government officers got here to the home I used to be constructing and my bar, forcing all of us out whereas I used to be asleep. They went to my academy (Odogwu Bar), the place I supported not simply musicians but additionally style designers, carpenters, bricklayers, and others, caring for different folks’s kids.

“The home they sealed was constructed on the land the place I exhumed my mom’s stays—she died once I was 13 years outdated. I later constructed a mansion there. The problem of cancelling my home is totally totally different. They raided my bar, seized my property, injured my apprentice, beat my clients, and despatched them away. After I arrived, they handed me a doc dated 2024, and I instructed them, ‘That is 2025; I can’t settle for this.’”

Assault on officers

Nonetheless, the state authorities has issued a warning to Transportable over what it described as his repeated assaults on authorities officers with out provocation.

In a press release on Friday, signed by the Particular Adviser to Governor Dapo Abiodun on Info and Technique, Kayode Akinmade condemned the singer’s actions.

Mr Akinmade denounced the singer and his associates’ assault on authorities officers as unacceptable and barbaric, emphasising that such misconduct can be handled by the regulation.

The assertion partly learn: “How Transportable and a few set of miscreants he employed within the dastardly act attacked the officers of the state planning and improvement allow Authority isn’t solely weird however a affirmation of abrasion of Omoluabi ethos in these people and certainly an important shame to the state.

“Governor Dapo Abiodun condemned this primitive and indecent act and reiterated his avowed dedication to a simply and egalitarian society as he is able to make any particular person flouting the extant regulation of the land face the complete wrath of the regulation regardless of social standing and affect.”