https://www.buzzyvibes.com/its-illegal-to-handcuff-seun-kuti-says-kenneth-okonkwo-to-lagos-police/

Kenneth Okonkwo, a veteran Nollywood actor turned Labour Party (LP) chieftain, has slammed the Lagos State Police for mistreating Nigerian Afrobeat singer Seun Kuti.

According to Buzzy Vibes, the police publicized images and videos of Kuti cuffed and his shoes removed while confirming the singer's incarceration.

Among the responses to the news, a curious Twitter user scolded the cops for their actions.

In response, Nigerian Police Public Relations Officer Olumuyiwa Adejobi indicated that it was a regular procedure before an individual was imprisoned.


However, in a social media post, Kenneth Okonkwo stated that handcuffing the singer after he freely surrendered was illegal.

According to him, a person who freely surrendered to the police cannot be believed to be violent or planning to flee, and Nigeria must learn to uphold the rule of law regardless of who is involved.

He said, “As a spokesperson for a movement seeking the entrenchment of the rule of law, I must admit that unlawful violence against any Nigeria citizen should not be condoned, especially when the person is a law enforcement agent.

“However, it’s unlawful for the police to handcuff Seun Kuti after he voluntarily surrendered to the police. Section 5(a) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015 states, “A suspect or defendant may not be handcuffed, bound or be subjected to restraint except there is reasonable apprehension of violence or an attempt to escape”.

“A person who voluntarily submitted to the police can not be presumed to be violent or planning to escape. We must learn in this country to maintain the rule of law no matter who is involved”

Recall that Kuti was over the weekend, involved in an altercation with a police officer on the Third Mainland bridge in Lagos and slapped the officer during the encounter.

Following the encounter, the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba ordered the arrest of the singer for investigation.

On Monday, the Lagos Police PRO, Ben Hundeyin confirmed the arrest of Kuti after he turned up at the Lagos State Police Command Headquarters, Ikeja, in the company of his lawyer and family representative.

Whats your thought on this?

1234.....another round of argument.

Na affidavit and quit notice you suppose dey write..

If na US police e try that rubbish with, na "Black Lives Matter"/you for dey hear now because dem for don delete am.


Rubbish.

Las las the bad people will be defeated who would rather prefer the impunity going on Nigeria to continue...

Granted that the singer acted inappropriately, but why should a whole law enforcement institution be handling the matter like a beef between two contending housewives?

You cuffed the man to exact revenge or what?

You don't need to show off strength for people to know that you are strong if indeed you are formidable...

This idiot that got law certificate from baze university not up to 5 years wants to put Seun Kuti in trouble

Police don't know the constitution

Most of them don't even know if it exist

The suspects that killed in Benue we have not seen their pictures. They refuse to show it so that they can free them later.

May they are afraid he will start another series of slapping, he was violent.

maestroferddi:
Las las the bad people will be defeated who would rather prefer the impunity going on Nigeria to continue...

Granted that the singer acted inappropriately, but why should a whole law enforcement institution be handling the matter like a beef between two contending housewives?

You cuffed the man to exact revenge or what?

You don't need to show off strength for people to know that you are strong if indeed you are formidable...

Are you okay? How do they treat perpetrators of assault anywhere else in the world? Some of you Nigerians are weird with your biased take on everything.

UK and USA they would forcefully subdue and taser him. Then cuff him even if unconscious.

It Ig is legal to slap an officer of the Federal Republic

they were just preventing him from slapping another police officer.

Why! Why!! Why!!!

Seun Kuti a Yoruba man slapped A Police Officer another Yoruba man in Lagos a Yoruba Land.

Kenneth should shut his godforsaken jewish cursed mouth and not drag Igbos into his madness.

Honestly Igbos need a serious holy purging they need to purge some bad blood otherwise they will keep jumping from one problem to another.

Aside from the fact that what Kenneth Okonkwo stated has legal backing, it is very reasonable and logical.

You should only handcuff people who are likely to inflict bodily harm on the arresters or flee. Seun Kuti voluntarily turned himself in; cuffing him and taking pictures was unnecessary.

danvon:
Why! Why!! Why!!!

Seun Kuti a Yoruba man slapped A Police Officer another Yoruba man in Lagos a Yoruba Land.

Kenneth should shut his godforsaken jewish cursed mouth and not drag Igbos into his madness.

Honestly Igbos need a serious holy purging they need to purge some bad blood otherwise they will keep jumping from one problem to another.

You need mental evaluation ASAP.

Every Nigerian has the right to comment on any national issue around the country.

Besides, injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere.

Dsalvo:


Are you okay? How do they treat perpetrators of assault anywhere else in the world? Some of you Nigerians are weird with your biased take on everything.

UK and USA they would forcefully subdue and taser him. Then cuff him even if unconscious.

Ogbeni no dey yarn okpata...

E be like say you just came across the word taser cue while you appear enamored by it...

You taser a suspect deemed dangerous and a threat to public peace...

You don't do jack shit on a suspect who turned himself in with even attorneys...

In the places you were keen to cite out of turn, it is deemed barbaric to display crude show of force instead of deploying modern methods like the use of forensics to do up-to-the-minute policing...

If the dude had slapped a cop in say, the US, he would be in terrible trouble and would probably do jail time but not for the police to cuff him in a weak show of force only for the guy to be let off the hook in less than two weeks...

You get it?

Dsalvo:


Are you okay? How do they treat perpetrators of assault anywhere else in the world? Some of you Nigerians are weird with your biased take on everything.

UK and USA they would forcefully subdue and taser him. Then cuff him even if unconscious.

Ehn nobody is Justifying Seun but he wasn't caught in the arrested in the process of assault which would have been reasonable at the time because the police will have a defense of "intention", because it was at the heat of action and his intention wasn't known.....but the case is different here because Seun surrendered himself few days after the incident and not at the heat of action so the police have no justification what so ever to handcuff him cos this is more like intimidation and playing to the gallery

danvon:
Why! Why!! Why!!!

Seun Kuti a Yoruba man slapped A Police Officer another Yoruba man in Lagos a Yoruba Land.

Kenneth should shut his godforsaken jewish cursed mouth and not drag Igbos into his madness.

Honestly Igbos need a serious holy purging they need to purge some bad blood otherwise they will keep jumping from one problem to another.

Carry your bigotry go wan side

Mrtaye:

Ehn nobody is Justifying Seun but he wasn't caught in the arrested in the process of assault which would have been reasonable at the time because the police will have a defense of "intention", because it was at the heat of action and his intention wasn't known.....but the case is different here because Seun surrendered himself few days after the incident and not at the heat of action so the police have no justification what so ever to handcuff him cos this is more like intimidation and playing to the gallery

Wherever and whenever he was arrested he will be cuffed in any civilised country with effective policing that is not partial and does not do bigmanism.

The clown Okonkwo should shut his ignorsnt and celebrity-worshipping mouth because it is clear he has grown up on a diet of bigmanism where even ordinary musicians can't be touched such as when police attached to Burnaboy shot live ammo in a Lagos club and the musician fled Nigeria with no more heard of the case today.

Can Burna try same in the USA, UK or anywhere in the West? Dem born am well to do that over there? Who will even attach police officers privately to him in those nations?

All because a lady who was with her man would not leave her newly wed husband to treat Burna boy like a god who thinks he can wave his hand and commandeer anyone's woman.

Luckily the lady was a diasporan who was not taken at all by Burna's money or fame perhaps because she has her own and knows what civility is to include being left in private to enjoy a night out with her husband.

You all want a better country but you don't read or so research to learn how things are done in better countries.

Seun is suspected of assault against a law enforcement officer. The rule must be to cuff such person , wherever and whenever they are eventually arrested, because of their propensity for violence which may escalate like grabbing an officer's weapon and shooting several dead.

It is standard precautionary arrest procedure for suspected violent offenders. Nigerians should stop speaking ouf of bias over who they like/support or hate/disown.

maestroferddi:
Ogbeni no dey yarn okpata...

E be like say you just came across the word taser cue while you appear enamored by it...

You taser a suspect deemed dangerous and a threat to public peace...

You don't do jack shit on a suspect who turned himself in with even attorneys...

In the places you were keen to cite out of turn, it is deemed barbaric to display crude show of force instead of deploying modern methods like the use of forensics to do up-to-the-minute policing...

If the dude had slapped a cop in say, the US, he would be in terrible trouble and would probably do jail time but not for the police to cuff him in a weak show of force only for the guy to be let off the hook in less than two weeks...

You get it?

Shut up. You're a clown. Always has been and always will be . See my reply above. If he shows up with his attorney so what?

Violent offenders who grab guns of law enforcement officers in Court to shoot others dead don't have attorneys with them? You are a joke.

Seun is a twa.t and an overprivileged brat who assumes he is above the law. He recorded a video saying "you know how many police officers I don wire slap". Your unprofessional police force and bigman-worshipping IG of police let that lunacy slide.

Are you okay at all? Can you post such a video in any civilised nation without being instantly arrested so you give names and incidence related to assault of police that is not logged officially as a crime the prosecution service should indict you over?

You, Seun, Okonkwo, Burna Boy etal are an example of the jokers who will never allow Nigeria resemble civilised nations.

Per being exposed, I treat Nigerian police officers with civility when they stop me or my driver, and virtually all of them respond in kind.

Starting with ensuring me and my driver have valid drivers licence and valid vehicle particulars. Once they see that they instantly adopt decent demeanour. Many Nigerians don't believe in obtaining these legally required documents but they'll be the ones arguing with police loudest .

Yet a tw.at like Seun or Burna who cannot drive without a valid drivers licence, or in a vehicle without road-valid papers, anywhere in the West will do same in Nigeria and still be assaulting the police for daring to stop him.

Nigerians are the reason Nigeria is failing.

A lot of people here done ment and no be jokes you posted his pictures when a court hasn’t deemed him guilty asides for video evidence the police station is not the court

Dsalvo:


Shut up. You're a clown. Always has been and always will be . See my reply above. If he shows up with his attorney so what?

Violent offenders who grab guns of law enforcement officers in Court to shoot others dead don't have attorneys with them? You are a joke.

Seun is a twa.t and an overprivileged brat who assumes he is above the law. He recorded a video saying "you know how many police officers I don wire slap". Your unprofessional police force and bigman-worshipping IG of police let that lunacy slide.

Are you okay at all? Can you post such a video in any civilised nation without being instantly arrested so you give names and incidence related to assault of police that is not logged officially as a crime the prosecution service should indict you over?

You, Seun, Okonkwo, Burna Boy etal are an example of the jokers who will never allow Nigeria resemble civilised nations.

Per being exposed, I treat Nigerian police officers with civility when they stop me or my driver, and virtually all of them respond in kind.

Starting with ensuring me and my driver have valid drivers licence and valid vehicle particulars. Once they see that they instantly adopt decent demeanour. Many Nigerians don't believe in obtaining these legally required documents but they'll be the ones arguing with police loudest .

Yet a tw.at like Seun or Burna who cannot drive without a valid drivers licence, or in a vehicle without road-valid papers, anywhere in the West will do same in Nigeria and still be assaulting the police for daring to stop him.

Nigerians are the reason Nigeria is failing.

Lazy Nigerian yoot...

You spent several minutes writing this load of baloney which is only high in verbosity but falls grievously short in critical thinking and objectivity...

It may pay you to seek out a crash course in logical reasoning so you can hone your critical thinking skills.

Nobody who has a functioning brain would support assault on law enforcement agents but the point being made is that the dramatisation of the case is as unprofessional as it is amateurish....

That should not be too difficult for your brain to process na...

Instead of this anachronistic method, efficient policing should ensure that the transgressor never gets off the hook in order to serve as a deterrent to future offenders...

The dude slapped a police officer. It is not like he was being arrested at the crime scene and then began to resist arrest necessitating getting him cuffed...

No.

The chap on his own volition elected to turn himself in after he was pronounced wanted by the police....

He went to the police station where the police have the whole gamut of their operational paraphernalia including guns. Was he overwhelming them? No...

If possible they should have served him tea and gotten him seated comfortably while perfecting his charge sheet.

This is how the inefficient system indulges in public trial instead of doing their homework which leads to their inability to secure a reasonable number of convictions despite the hot air they are wont to blow all the time.

Now think very well before jumping to do a rejoinder only to succeed in ridiculing yourself the more...

Telling those have the time to care that you get around with a driver is childish...BTW.

Dsalvo:


Wherever and whenever he was arrested he will be cuffed in any civilised country with effective policing that is not partial and does not do bigmanism.

The clown Okonkwo should shut his ignorsnt and celebrity-worshipping mouth because it is clear he has grown up on a diet of bigmanism where even ordinary musicians can't be touched such as when police attached to Burnaboy shot live ammo in a Lagos club and the musician fled Nigeria with no more heard of the case today.

Can Burna try same in the USA, UK or anywhere in the West? Dem born am well to do that over there? Who will even attach police officers privately to him in those nations?

All because a lady who was with her man would not leave her newly wed husband to treat Burna boy like a god who thinks he can wave his hand and commandeer anyone's woman.

Luckily the lady was a diasporan who was not taken at all by Burna's money or fame perhaps because she has her own and knows what civility is to include being left in private to enjoy a night out with her husband.

You all want a better country but you don't read or so research to learn how things are done in better countries.

Seun is suspected of assault against a law enforcement officer. The rule must be to cuff such person , wherever and whenever they are eventually arrested, because of their propensity for violence which may escalate like grabbing an officer's weapon and shooting several dead.

It is standard precautionary arrest procedure for suspected violent offenders. Nigerians should stop speaking ouf of bias over who they like/support or hate/disown.

You are actually confusing yourself,in a civilized cline Seun wouldn't have left the spot of assault because he would have been outnumbered and overpowered then cuffed immediately this creating no drama but here because of fundamental issues the police have sold their birthright to rich and connected Nigerians hence not knowing their left from right....also the police here don't command the respect of the civilized cline because they have too dabbled into things that they aren't statutorily expected to do..... please stop comparing Nigeria to civilized climes

Oga this advice shdn't come from your types.
Your blodas are daily killing police and security officers, we don't want the madness imported to southwest.

Seun did d crime, we are comfortable with him doing the time.

In southwest we don't support/condone criminals just bcus of tribal considerations

Mental case

danvon:
Why! Why!! Why!!!

Seun Kuti a Yoruba man slapped A Police Officer another Yoruba man in Lagos a Yoruba Land.

Kenneth should shut his godforsaken jewish cursed mouth and not drag Igbos into his madness.

Honestly Igbos need a serious holy purging they need to purge some bad blood otherwise they will keep jumping from one problem to another.

The Nigeria police do not understand rules of law. They are number one law breaker. They abuse the power given to them against the people they are supposed to protect.