Popular reggae musician, Mandator (Victor Essiet) has been arrested. He was arrested by armed policemen, while leaving the premises of an Ikeja Magistrate Court, Lagos after he was acquitted and discharged of a criminal charge.

His lawyer, Charles Lambo said: “Mandator was in the Magistrate Court One, early this morning, to attend a criminal matter between him and one complainant, Morris Etim, who had filed a suit in which Mandator was accused of obtaining some amount of money by false pretence.”

“But at the proceedings this morning, the court discharged and acquitted him of the allegation. It was while on his way home that some men suspected to be Policemen, fully armed ordered his car to stop and he was arrested and up till now, no one know where he has been taken to.”

“In spite of the fact that the case between my client (Mandator) and Etim is still in court, there have been series of threats from him that he will ensure that he use every available force to destabilise and run down Mandator.”