Nigerian hip-hop artiste Ice Prince has been remanded at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre for assaulting a police officer.
It is to be recalled that the artiste whose real name is Panshak Zamani was arrested by the Lagos State Police Command on Friday.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, said the Oleku crooner abducted a police officer who stopped him for driving without license plates, assaulted him, and threatened to throw him into the river.
Ice Prince was arraigned before a magistrate court sitting in Ajah, Lagos State by the state’s police command on Friday on a three-count charge of assault, obstructing a policeman from carrying out his statutory duties, and abduction.
When the counts were read to him, he pleaded not guilty.
Magistrate Taiwo Oyaniyi subsequently granted him bail in the sum of N500,000. He is also to furnish the court with 2 responsible sureties.
Pending when he meets the bail conditions, the magistrate ordered his remand and adjourned further proceedings in the case till September 7.
