Nigeria Police Force personnel have arrested controversial social media celebrity, Darlington Okoye, popularly known as Speed Darlington, in Owerri, the Imo State capital.
Darlington’s lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, confirmed his re-arrest in a post on his official X page on Wednesday.
Adeyanju stated that the musician was arrested while performing at a show in Owerri, days after returning to the country earlier in the week.
He wrote, “Our client, Speed Darlington, a.k.a AKPI, has been arrested by the Nigeria Police in Owerri at his show upon return to Nigeria.”
Speed also known as Akpi has had run ins with the police in October. Adeyanju has announced that hewas actually detained by the police after a friend declared him missing for three days. “We have just located Speed Darlington and we are working on getting him freed. The attack against freedom of expression in Nigeria must stop. You can’t be singing against oppressors and still be an oppressor”, the lawyer had said in Facebook post, adding, “We just spent the last 30mins with Speed Darlington and he narrated how he was arrested in Lagos Friday last week, moved around and eventually brought to Abuja and has been in detention since then. Petition against him was written by Burna Boy we can confirm”.
Netizens had traced Speed’s detention to his controversial videos in which he asked Afro-fusion star, Burna Boy, to explain if disgraced music mogul Sean ‘Diddy” Combs facilitated his Grammy win. Born Damini Ogulu, Buna Boy won the Grammy for Best Global Music Album in 2021 with Twice As Tall. He has maintained dominance globally with successive albums I Told Them and Love, Damini.
The usually taciturn musician replied with a short post “Who is missing/” on X, that he was behind Speed’s arrest.
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