A popular pop artist, Temitope Adekunle, aka Small
Doctor and his three of his cronies have been arrested for threatening to shoot
a traffic police officer.
Small Doctor, who was arrested for unlawful
possession of firearm, was also alleged to have threatened to shoot the
policeman along Oshodi.
It will be recalled that Small Doctor had a criminal
case pending. He had opened fire during his show, inflicting gunshot injuries
on four fans.
Yesterday, the musician was said to be in the
company of his three friends. It was further claimed that after issuing the
threat, Small Doctor sped off. The
officer radioed one of the police patrol vans along the axis and they pursued
the fleeing Small Doctor’s car.
According to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police,
Edgal Imohimi, the suspects were arrested at Oshodi area of Lagos after they
had threatened to shoot traffic policemen.
Imohimi, who said that he was disappointed at the
musician's conduct, knowing he had a case with the State Criminal Investigations
and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Panti, Yaba, for shooting at his show in
Agege where he allegedly injured four persons.
Imohimi said: “You would have thought the incident
would have made him wiser, but surprisingly today, I got a situation report
from traffic monitors at Oshodi expressway alleging that four unknown gunmen in
green unregistered SUV threatened to shoot policemen. He brought out a weapon
and threatened to shoot the policemen. Fortunately the Divisional Police Officer
(DPO) and other policemen at Shogunle intercepted the suspects and arrested
them.
“When they were brought here, it was discovered that
one of them was the same Adekunle Temitope aka Small Doctor with three others
and they were arrested with a functional rifle, a cartridge and some personal
items. I am concerned as one will expect that a popular musician like him would
be a role model, but his character of ‘gangsterism’ is nothing to emulate.”
The CP further urged celebrities to stop involving
themselves in issues of gangsters and conflicts, which do not portray them in
good light.
Imohimi said: “You would recall that the Inspector
General of Police, I-G Ibrahim Idris have a window period for submission of all
firearms as all licences had been canceled and all approvals suspended. I have
directed that the case be properly investigated and they will be charged for
threatening violence on policemen and being in possession of forearm."
Small Doctor hailed from Ese Odo, Ilaje Ondo State
and he received his elementary and secondary education at Ain’t Orosan and
Oniwaya Secondary school respectively. He later went to the University of Lagos
but don’t finish because of some personal issues.
Adekunle discovered his music talent when he was in
secondary school and knew he had the instinct of composing good songs; he
composed ‘E ma kanra mo mi’ in 2003.
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