PORTABLE SPEAKS OUT AS GOVT SEALS HIS UNFINISHED BUILDING, HOTEL DUE TO ILLEGAL DEVELOPMENT

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Nigerian singer Habeeb Okikiola, better known as Portable, has expressed his frustration after the Ogun State government sealed his incomplete building and hotel in Sango-Ota due to illegal construction.

A contravention notice shared by the ‘Zazu’ singer on Instagram revealed that the properties were sealed by the Ogun State Planning and Development Authority.

Portable claimed that around 20 of his customers and employees were detained during the sealing process and that the alcoholic beverages in his bar were confiscated.

He wrote: “I believe in Eledumare. Nobody can fool me, Omo Olohun. They packed everybody, took more than 20 people, both artists and customers, and they packed cars, bikes, including people’s phones and jobs. All the people that came for help, they packed them and sealed my new uncompleted building and hotel. Why? In my hometown, and we didn’t fight back, they packed all the drinks we were selling at Odowgu Bar and Food. Why? Government should please look into this.

“I am using this place to book events and shows, not only for drinks. I am promoting people and helping people here. The government should ask, I put light everywhere, and before the government came for road repairs, I called them to help us. Why will they do this at my property, which I am using to feed my family? They later came and attacked me where I was, but God is greater than them.”

The Ogun State Planning and Development Authority has not yet responded to the allegations.