Court grants bail to Peller over police incident

A Lagos State Magistrates' Court has granted TikTok streamer Habeeb “Peller” Hamzat bail for ₦500,000 in a case involving the Lagos State Police Command.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Adebisi, confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES that the content creator was arrested and brought before the court on Monday. Peller and his friend, Bello Oladipo, faced charges over an incident that happened on 2 July along the Coastal Road in Lekki, Lagos.

The two faced three charges: resisting police officers, preventing officers from doing their jobs, and allegedly threatening and recording police officers while they performed their duties.

A report in the Leadership newspaper on Tuesday said the court granted bail to the 21-year-old and Oladipo. Each of them must provide two sureties. One of the sureties must be a blood relative, and both must show tax clearance certificates for the last two years.

Charges

The three charges are as follows:

“That you, Bello Oladipo and Habeeb Hamzat, of No. 16, Platinum Road, Lekki Phase 2, on the 2nd day of July 2026, at around 20:00, at Coastal Road, Lekki, Lagos, in this Honourable Court's district, did conspire to commit a crime, specifically: resisting public officers, which is punishable under Section 411 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State 2015.”

“That you, Bello Oladipo and Habeeb Hamzat, of Number 16, Platinum Road, Lekki Phase 2, on the 2nd day of July 2026, at around 20:00, at Coastal Road, Lekki, Lagos, in this Honourable Court's district, did obstruct ASP Agbede Victor and three other police officers while they were doing their jobs, which is punishable under Section 117 (1) (2) of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State 2015.

“That you, Bello Oladipo and Habeeb Hamzat, of Number 16, Platinum Road, Lekki Phase 2, on the 2nd day of July 2026, at around 20:00, at Coastal Road, Lekki, Lagos, in this Honourable Court's district, did act in a way likely to disturb the public peace by threatening and filming police officers while they were doing their jobs, which is punishable under Section 168 (a) & (d) of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State 2015.”

Backstory

The newspaper reported that Peller had a confrontation with police officers after they stopped him for allegedly driving a car without a number plate.

Peller told the officers that he had just bought the car. But the officers did not accept this and insisted that he follow them to the police station. The situation got worse when Peller started recording the interaction. He claimed that the officers became aggressive, with one of them pulling his shirt and pointing a gun at him.

Peller and Oladipo, who was in the car at the time, were later taken to court. Peller recently made news after paying the bride price for his fiancée, TikToker Amadou “Jarvis” Aminata.