The husband and manager to famous singer, Tiwa Savage, Tunji
Balogun has rubbished reports that the singer was arrested by the police
at the weekend for allegedly assaulting a police officer in Lagos.
Since
last week Saturday, there have been several reports that Tiwa was
arrested on Friday night in Lagos for allegedly assaulting a police
officer around Eko Hotel and Suites.
The singer was said to have
taken off the cap of the police officer, who reportedly stopped her for
allegedly breaking a traffic law. She was reportedly whisked away to a
police station in Victoria Island but was later released by the police.
Reacting
to the development, Balogun, well known as Tee Billz, when contacted on
the issue, said that the rumour is false and has no iota of truth in
it.
“My brother, I am also just getting to hear about this
rumour, it is not true. I don’t know where they got such information
from,” Tee Billz said.
“I don’t know when exactly they said such
incident happened but Tiwa had four shows that night (the incident was
said to have occurred), and she was with us all through,” he stated
further.
Meanwhile, a policeman at the Victoria Island Police Division has confirmed the Mavin Records artiste’s arrest.
According to him, in a chat with newsmen on the condition of anonomity,
Tiwa had argued with the policeman, who flagged her down for flouting
traffic rules in front of Eko Hotels and Suites Victoria Island, on
Saturday.
He said: “Tiwa Savage refused to stop at a traffic
light around Adetokunbo Ademola Street near Eko Hotel and Suites. When
we attempted to accost her, she refused to park her car as instructed by
the policemen.
“Since there was a traffic snarl at the time, a
policeman followed her car and insisted that she must stop. After a
while, she stopped and started raining abuses on all of us so, we took
her to the station.
“On getting to the station, a senior officer
advised her to apologise because she was wrong and there were even
eyewitnesses at the scene who could testify against her if the matter
was taken to court. She apologised and was released immediately.”
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