Popular Musician, Small Doctor, Granted Bail

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An Ebute Metta Magistrate Court has granted Nigerian singer, Small Doctor,  bail after he was arrested for alleged unlawful possession of a firearm.

Small Doctor was arraigned earlier at the Ebute Metta Magistrate court, alongside the three other persons arrested with him during the altercation in Oshodi, Lagos.

During her ruling on Tuesday, it was reported that the chief magistrate, A. O. Komolafe, advised the musician and others arraigned alongside him to be of good behaviour.

The police, in a motion exparte filed and argued by Cyril Ajifor, an assistant superintendent of police, asked the court for an order requiring the musician and other respondents to execute or enter into a pledge with sureties to keep the peace in Shogunle and its environs of Lagos, for a period of one year.

He also added that they should not for that period engage, recruit, instigate or incite any member of the community to cause breach of public peace or disturb peace within or outside the community. He also asked for any other order the court may deem fit.

The motion exparte was supported with a seven-paragraph affidavit deposed to by an inspector, Kasali Saturani, who stated how the respondents were found with a double-barrel pistol at Shogunle area of the state.

Upon hearing from the police lawyer, the presiding chief magistrate released Small Doctor and other respondents to two sureties with N5 million bond each.

She also proclaimed an order banning them for a period of one year, not to engage, recruit, instigate or incite any member of the Shogunle community and Lagos State by extension.

She also cautioned them against causing a breach of public peace or disturbing the peace within or outside the community and Lagos State.

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Sodiq Oyeleke is a Media, Human Resources, Project Management and Public Relations Practitioner