Portable’s Arrest: CHRSJ Condemns Police Involvement In Debt Recovery  

A human rights body, the Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ), has strongly condemned the men of Nigeria Police Force (NPF) over the way and manner they arrested Lagos-based singer, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as “Portable”, over an alleged failure to pay the balance on the car he purchased recently. 

The group said that the Police officers  involved in the arrest of Portable conducted themselves in an unprofessional manner, which was against the policing agenda of the current Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr. Kayode Egbetokun.

CHRSJ backed the position of an Abuja-based legal practitioner, Barrister Pelumi Olajengbesi, that the Nigeria Police had no role to play in debt recovery, insisting that the conduct of the Police were short of international policing best practices and it has caused negative attention to the Force.

Speaking on the development through its Assistant General Secretary (AGS), Pastor Michael Agassi, the group recalled recently that the same operatives of Nigeria Police Force (NPF) from Lagos State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) Panti-Yaba, stormed the residential house of its Executive Chairman, Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman in a maner as if we were still in the dark days of military era over a trump-up allegation of wrong payment to the personal account of his wife domiciled in Guaranty Trust Bank(GTB).

CHRSJ urged the Police boss to institute a disciplinary action against those Police Officers that were involved in bringing disrepute to the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) through their illegal and unprofessional conduct in order to serve as deterrent to others in the Force.