{"id":58353,"date":"2024-12-23T15:41:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T15:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58353"},"modified":"2024-12-23T15:41:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T15:41:27","slug":"speed-darlington-granted-bail-after-month-long-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/23\/speed-darlington-granted-bail-after-month-long-detention\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed Darlington Granted Bail After Month-Long Detention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Gabriella Ogbu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Controversial rapper Darlington Achakpo, popularly known as Speed Darlington, has been granted bail after nearly a month in police custody.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyer, Stanley Alieke, announced the development on Instagram, stating, \u201cApki has been granted bail by the court,\u201d without disclosing further details.<\/p>\n<p>Darlington was arrested on November 27 during a performance in Owerri, Imo State, following an alleged altercation involving Afrofusion star Burna Boy (Damini Ogulu).<\/p>\n<p>The incident reportedly stemmed from Darlington\u2019s provocative remarks about Burna Boy\u2019s association with U.S. rapper Sean &#8220;Diddy&#8221; Combs, who is embroiled in allegations of sexual exploitation and human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Deji Adeyanju, another member of Darlington\u2019s legal team, had earlier accused Burna Boy of orchestrating the arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his detention, Darlington remained vocal, vowing not to relent in criticizing Burna Boy\u2019s ties to Diddy.<\/p>\n<p>Adeyanju previously revealed that a court had ordered either Darlington\u2019s arraignment within 48 hours or his release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJustice may take time, but it always prevails,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper\u2019s release has drawn significant public attention, with fans closely following the case and its legal implications.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gabriella Ogbu Controversial rapper Darlington Achakpo, popularly known as Speed Darlington, has been granted bail after nearly a month in police custody. His lawyer, Stanley Alieke, announced the development on Instagram, stating, \u201cApki has been granted bail by the court,\u201d without disclosing further details. Darlington was arrested on November 27 during a performance in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":58354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58355,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58353\/revisions\/58355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}