Controversial Nigerian singer, Portable has queried the Ogun state police command for attempting to arrest him because he ‘disciplined’ his apprentice, Manny Monie.
This comes after Manny Monie, a former signee of his record label Zeh Nation, wrote a petition against him for physically assaulting him and allegedly seizing his studio equipment.
Recall that police officers stormed Portable’s bar in the Sango area of Ogun state to effect his arrest after he refused to honor their invitation on five different occassions, but he resisted the arrest.
Following the ruckus, Manny Monie disclosed that he is the one responsible for Portable’s troubles with the police.
“I was the one that wrote the petition against portable. It is not today we wrote the petition. We wrote it since December last year. The police have tried their possible best. They did not want his name to ‘spoil’ online so they invited him over. They gave him at least three months to say his own side of the story. He beat me, assaulted me, seized my property, made false allegations against me online,” Monie said in a video.
Reacting to this, Portable stated that Manny Monie was his apprentice and he had the right to beat him as a form of disciplinary action.
He said beating his apprentice is not enough reason for the police to arrest him. He also accused his former signee of being a fraudster.
His words,
“That boy wey I beat, he’s my boy. I’m a boss to him. Oga go beat apprentice na? That one no mean say make Police come say make dem come arrest you. This boy is my boy. He’s into Yahoo [Internet fraud]. I advised him to quit but he still dey do the scam dey go. Then I pursued him. I beat him. I flogged him. Now you want to arrest me because of I flogged him? He come to write a petition about me, about a celebrity superstar. He’s a Yahoo boy. Yahoo boy came to lay a complaint. He write petition about superstar celebrity. My work is legit. I do music for a living. I no fear anybody, na only God I fear.”
Watch him speak below,
