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Funke Akindele’s party: Amen Estate owner, Naira Marley granted bail, to be arraigned today
The Lagos State Police Command has released on bail the owner of Amen Estate at Ibeju Lekki Area of Lagos State, Babatunde Gbadamosi, and his wife for breaching the social distancing order in the state.
The duo were released on Tuesday alongside a musician, Azeez Fashola, aka Naira Marley, after they perfected their bail conditions.
WuzupNigeria reports that Gbadamosi, a former governorship candidate of the Action Democratic Party [ADP] in the state in the 2019 gubernatorial election, his wife, Naira Marley, and a host of other celebrities fell foul of the law after they attended a birthday party organised by a popular actress, Funke Akindele-Bello, aka Jenifa.
Funke Akindele-Bello had organised the party to celebrate her musician husband, Abdul Rasheed Bello, alias JJC Skillz, who clocked 43-year-old.
The party held at their residence on the Amen Estate in the Ibeju-Lekki area of the state.
The trio had on Monday turned themselves in at the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Panti, Yaba, and were detained after the police asked them and others, who attended the party to report at the SCIID.
More than 20 persons were in attendance at the party in contravention of the state government’s social distancing directive to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
The celebrity couple were arraigned by the state government on Monday and were sentenced to 14 days of community service and also fined N100,000 each by Mrs Aje Afunwa of the Lagos State Magistrates’ Court in Ogba.
The magistrate, who also ordered that they should be placed in isolation, added that they must compile and submit the names and phone numbers of all those, who attended the party.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, who confirmed the release of Gbadamosi, his wife and Naira Marley to our correspondent, however, stated that they would be arraigned today.
“They (Gbadamosi, his wife and Fashola) are on bail because the court did not sit today (Tuesday) and we could not keep them beyond the constitutional time given. They all slept in the cell yesterday (Monday) and they have all been granted bail and asked to report back tomorrow (Wednesday) so that they can be arraigned,” he stated.
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