{"id":13532,"date":"2023-05-18T16:09:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T16:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=13532"},"modified":"2023-05-18T18:57:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T18:57:56","slug":"court-remands-seun-kuti-for-additional-four-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=13532","title":{"rendered":"Court Remands Seun Kuti For Additional Four Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A Sabo-Yaba Chief Magistrates\u2019 Court in Lagos State on Thursday granted an application for an extension of remand of afrobeat singer, Seun Kuti, for additional four days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Adeola Olatubosun, extended Kuti\u2019s remand until May 22.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mr Simon Lough (SAN), who led a police legal team to the court, had moved the application.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to him, the extension is to allow further investigation into the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Kuti is charged with assaulting a police officer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He allegedly committed the offence on May 13 on the Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The police charged him with slapping an inspector after driving dangerously on the bridge and deliberately blocking a moving police vehicle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kuti was arraigned on Tuesday during which the chief magistrate ordered his remand for 48 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She, however, held that the defendant should be admitted to bail in the sum of one million Naira with two sureties in like sum, at the end of the 48-hour remand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She said that one of the sureties must be a landlord within the jurisdiction of the court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She had adjourned the case until May 22 for mention and directed the prosecutor to duplicate the case file and forward a copy to the state director of public prosecutions for advice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">NAN<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sabo-Yaba Chief Magistrates\u2019 Court in Lagos State on Thursday granted an application for an extension of remand of afrobeat singer, Seun Kuti, for additional four days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[173,6972],"class_list":["post-13532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-court","tag-seun-kuti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13533,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13532\/revisions\/13533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}