{"id":1491,"date":"2023-05-14T13:32:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T13:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2023-05-14T13:32:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T13:32:35","slug":"ig-orders-seun-kutis-arrest-over-assault-on-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/05\/14\/ig-orders-seun-kutis-arrest-over-assault-on-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"IG Orders Seun Kuti\u2019s Arrest Over Assault On Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has ordered the arrest of Afrobeat musician, Seun Kuti, over an alleged assault of a police officer in Lagos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The IG has equally ordered a speedy and full investigation into the remote and immediate cause(s) of the alleged assault and prosecution of the suspect accordingly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This was as the musician alleged attempted murder of himself and his family by the police officer in question, in a social media post obtained by our correspondent on Saturday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Speaking on the incident in a Saturday night statement obtained by our correspondent, the Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Ad\u00e9j\u1ecdb\u00ed said, \u201cThe Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has ordered the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command to arrest Afrobeat singer, Seun Kuti, who was captured on video assaulting a police officer in uniform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe IG has equally ordered a speedy and full investigation into the remote and immediate cause(s) of the assault and prosecution of the suspect accordingly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIG Baba assures Nigerians that acts of contempt\/disdain for symbols of authority will not be tolerated while offenders of such hideous crimes will be surely brought to book.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Meanwhile, in a Saturday night Instagram post obtained by our correspondent, \u1e62eun Kuti noted that the police officer in question had apologised over an alleged attempt to murder him and his family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kuti said, \u201cHe tried to kill me and my family. I have the proof but I no dey chase clout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHe has apologised and I have agreed not to press charges. Make una mind una business make the poor guy no\u00a0lose\u00a0his\u00a0job.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">However, following the IG\u2019s order for his arrest, Mr Kuti in another Instagram post, said, \u201cI welcome the investigation and will give my full cooperation! I also pray to the IG that whoever is wrong should be indicted.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Efforts by our correspondent to reach Mr Kuti for comments on Saturday didn\u2019t materialize, as the musician didn\u2019t respond to phone calls or\u00a0text\u00a0messages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Details later\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has ordered the arrest of Afrobeat musician, Seun Kuti, over an alleged assault of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainments-and-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1493,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions\/1493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}