{"id":1197153,"date":"2022-09-02T11:34:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T11:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/02\/nigerian-rapper-ice-prince-arrested-for-allegedly-abducting-threatening-a-cop\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T11:34:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T11:34:52","slug":"nigerian-rapper-ice-prince-arrested-for-allegedly-abducting-threatening-a-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/02\/nigerian-rapper-ice-prince-arrested-for-allegedly-abducting-threatening-a-cop\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian rapper Ice Prince arrested for allegedly abducting, threatening a cop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"Nigerian rapper Ice Prince arrested for allegedly abducting, threatening a cop\" title=\"Nigerian rapper Ice Prince arrested for allegedly abducting, threatening a cop\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>Nigerian rapper Panshak Henry Zamani, popularly known as Ice Prince Zamani, has been arrested for allegedly abducting a police officer.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson for the police in Lagos state,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenHundeyin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Benjamin Hundeyin<\/a><\/strong>, broke the news in a tweet on Friday morning detailing how the singer was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>He stated the singer was arrested for an alleged assault on a police officer who stopped him for driving without license plates.<\/p>\n<p>In the tweet, Mr Hudenyin alleged that the rapper threatened to throw the officer into a river at the point of arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The PPRO posted a photo of the rapper in handcuffs and said he would be prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt 3 am today, @Iceprincezamani was stopped for driving without license plates. He agreed to be taken to the station. After that, he abducted the police officer in his car, assaulted and threatened to throw him in the river. He has been arrested and will be arraigned today\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At 3am today, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Iceprincezamani?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Iceprincezamani<\/a> was stopped for driving without license plates. He agreed to be taken to the station. He, thereafter, abducted the police officer in his car, assaulted him and threatened to throw him in the river. He has been arrested and would be arraigned today. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jLazuYOUal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/jLazuYOUal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SP Benjamin Hundeyin (@BenHundeyin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenHundeyin\/status\/1565593518952816640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr Hundeyin also confirmed the incident during a telephone interview with PREMIUM TIMES on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He said that \u201cthe incident occurred around Lekki Phase 1, but he was arrested in Victoria Island. Ice Prince would be arraigned at the Magistrate court in Ajah on Friday morning.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Ice Prince has been low-key in the entertainment scene and the music industry and has not had a prior altercation with the Nigerian police.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Ice Prince<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Ice Prince rose to fame after releasing \u201cOleku\u201d, one of Nigeria\u2019s most remixed songs.<\/p>\n<p>He won the 2009 Hennessy Artistry Club Tour. He released his debut studio album \u2018Everybody Loves Ice Prince\u2019 in 2011. \u201cOleku\u201d, \u201cSuperstar\u201d, and \u201cJuju\u201d were\u00a0the three big hits off the album.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Ice Prince released Fire of Zamani as his second studio album. The album contained the singles \u201cAboki\u201d, \u201cMore\u201d, \u201cGimme Dat\u201d and \u201cI Swear\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On 1 July 2015, Ice Prince was announced as the vice president of Chocolate City. He held the position until he left the label in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/nigerian-rapper-ice-prince-arrested-for-allegedly-abducting-threatening-a-cop\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian rapper Panshak Henry Zamani, popularly known as Ice Prince Zamani, has been arrested for allegedly abducting a police officer. The spokesperson for the police in Lagos state,\u00a0Benjamin Hundeyin, broke the news in a tweet on Friday morning detailing how the singer was arrested. He stated the singer was arrested for an alleged assault on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1197154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25016,1162,2766,13310,13941,1515,1730,1646,11996],"class_list":["post-1197153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-abducting","tag-allegedly","tag-arrested","tag-cop","tag-ice","tag-nigerian","tag-prince","tag-rapper","tag-threatening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}