The superstar musician Oluwatobiloba Daniel Anidugbe popularly known as Kizz Daniel has been invited by the police and could be arrested or detained if he fails to honor the invitation of the police.
He was invited on account of the seizure of a property (laundry truck) belonging to a dry cleaning company. According to the story, Kizz Daniel gave out his clothes to be dry cleaned by the laundry company and the Landry company damaged some of his expensive and quality clothes. He decided to seize their truck until they replace the clothes for him or pay him the money worth of the clothes which is said to be running into multiple six digits. The laundry company reported him to the police for this act.
The act of Kizz Daniel seizing the property of his debtor/ offenders is referred to in law as self-help and resorting to self-help is always prohibited in a civilized society like Nigeria. Citizens are prohibited from taking the law into their hands, even if you are the singer of the famous hit song “Buga ”, you are expected to comfort yourself, be civil and follow the due course of law in addressing your grievances.
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A dry-cleaning company mishandling the clothes of the artist is a civil wrong and the police have no power over that and Kizz Daniel has no legal right or bases to resort to self-help; the corresponding reaction of Kizz Daniel seizing the property belonging to the dry-cleaning company now falls under the purview of criminal wrong and Kizz Daniel could be charged for theft or illegal seizure of property belonging to another. He could as well be charged with assault and battery and if he damaged the property of the dry cleaning company he could also be charged for damaging the property belonging to another.
What the superstar singer should have done is to commence legal action against the laundry company in court and pray to the court to ask the laundry company to pay him back for the expensive clothes they damaged or replace the clothes and if Kizz Daniel makes a good case the court will grant him his prayers.
Self-help turns the society into a jungle; an animal kingdom where the strong feast on the weak and weaker animals are constantly harassed, killed, or chased around by the stronger ones.
