Court Gives Police 48 Hours to round up investigation of the assault on one of it’s operatives by th popular afro pop artist Seun Kuti
Earlier on the Police prosecutor, S. A. Adebese had prayed that the court remand the defendant Seun Kuti for 21 days.
The Counsel said the three weeks would allow the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to prepare legal advice.
But the defence counsel, Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), opposed the plea in his argument.
Falana begged the court not to remand his client, adding that he was not aware of an application to that effect.
Also following complaints of a LAWYER that accompanied the Afro beat singer Seun Kuti to the Lagos State Police Command headquarters, Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika, has decried how the musician was treated after his arrest by the Nigeria Police Force for assaulting one of its operatives. Leading to the court’s order for investigations of the alleged assult on a policeman by the son of the legendary Fela Kuti whose vehicle was stopped on Third Mainland bridge
be rounded up within 48 hours.