{"id":27922,"date":"2020-08-07T19:05:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T18:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=27922"},"modified":"2020-08-07T19:05:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T18:05:15","slug":"covid-19-violation-abuja-mobile-court-fines-naira-marley-n200000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=27922","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Violation: Abuja mobile court fines Naira Marley N200,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Abuja Mobile Court on Friday convicted and fined a musician, Azeez Fashola (also known\u00a0 Naira Marley)\u00a0 N200,000\u00a0 for violating COVID-19 protocols on June 13.<br \/>\nHe is charged with four counts of violating interstate travel ban, not using facemask, breaking the social \u2013distancing order and attending a concert breaching the COVID-19 restriction order on social gathering.<br \/>\nMagistrate Idayat Akanni\u00a0 set the fine at N200,000 after the musician\u00a0 pleaded guilty to the\u00a0 charges against him.<br \/>\nSpeaking earlier, Ccounsel to the artiste, Mohammed Yunusa said that his client was made to believe that the organisers of the concert had procured all the approval from the Federal Government.<br \/>\nThe Chief State Counsel, Udeme Umana, said : \u201dthe court also mandated him to publish an public apology to the Federal Government in a national daily of choice.<br \/>\n\u201cThis will serve as a detterent to other Nigerians\u201d.<br \/>\nThe \u2018Mafo\u2019 crooner had on June 13, left Lagos for the Federal Capital Territory to perform at a concert held at the Jabi Lake Mall.<br \/>\nThe concert was organized by Play Network Africa, Traffic Bar, and El\u2019Carnival, and was sponsored by Glenfiddich.<br \/>\nFollowing public outrage, the FCT Minister shut down the mall and the Federal Government of Nigeria stopped the operation of the airline whose plane he chartered.<br \/>\n\u25aa\ufe0e By <strong>NAN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Abuja Mobile Court on Friday convicted and fined a musician, Azeez Fashola (also known\u00a0 Naira Marley)\u00a0 N200,000\u00a0 for violating COVID-19 protocols on June 13. He is charged with four counts of violating interstate travel ban, not using facemask, breaking the social \u2013distancing order and attending a concert breaching the COVID-19 restriction order on social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":24972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5775,7],"tags":[1716,1143,2089],"class_list":["post-27922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-concert","tag-fine","tag-naira-marley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}