Seun Kuti, an Afrobeats musician, has been detained by the Lagos State Police for allegedly assaulting a police officer over the weekend.

Benjamin Hundenyin, the Lagos State Command’s public relations officer, verified this in a statement on Monday using his official Twitter account.

The PPRO added, “Afrobeat singer Seun Kuti handed himself in at the Lagos State Police Command Headquarters, Ikeja, in the early hours of morning while accompanied by his attorney and family representation. He’s been taken into custody.

Remember how Vanguard reported that police officers barged into the Afrobeat musician’s Lagos residence and the African shrine in the Ikeja neighborhood of Lagos to arrest him after the Inspector General of Police ordered his arrest for assaulting a police officer on the Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos.

Further information obtained by Propolitics revealed that police officers visited Seun’s home on Saturday night and Sunday morning but did not encounter him.

Propolitics has learned from a source that attempts were being undertaken to find Seun, who is thought to have fled the country.

This occurred as the Police Service Commission, PSC, yesterday denounced Seun’s attack on a police officer in Lagos who was wearing a uniform and doing official duties.

PSC applauded Baba Usman Alkali, the Inspector General of Police, for moving swiftly to order Seun’s arrest and prosecution.