Former Presidential candidate, Rev Chris Okotie,has urged the Inspector General of Police,Alkali Baba, to show mercy upon Afrobeat star,Seun Kuti over his case with the Police.
The outspoken musician is in detention for slapping a Police man during an encounter in traffic recently. The matter has raised an uproar across the country.
In a press statement issued in Lagos yesterday, and signed by his media adviser, Ladi Ayodeji, Rev Okotie made a case for amnesty for the embattled music star.
Below is the full statement:

"I would like to urge the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) to demonstrate a paternal clemency towards Seun Kuti in his transgression against an authorised myrmidon of the law. "Anti-establishment is not acceptable under any guise, however, a humane superintendence is a mark of a great leadership.
"The youth have been under tremendous pressure to establish a new Nigerian social order and Seun’s abrasive conduct is a tangent from that trajectory.
"I plead earnestly with the IGP to temper justice with mercy and exculpate Seun of all charges. Femi and Seun Kuti are artistic souvenirs bestowed upon us by the legendary Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and we truly appreciate the creative artistry demonstrated in their musical genre.
"Please find sufficient grace in your heart to anesthesize the gravity of this provocation.
"May the blessing of the God of heaven be vouchsafed to you in the plenitude of His Grace."

Okotie's message came in the wake of the court's extension of Seun's detention by four days.

Is it that people derives pleasure in criticisms? What in the devil's nyash is this man trying to prove? That he is a man of God or just trying to be relevant?

Dear Chris, no one is above the law in Nigeria including yourself or any riff raffs out there. Enough of all this insults to the Nigerian people.

When Seun was slapping the police Okotie didn't put mouth.

Now the police have detained Seun he is now saying they should “find sufficient grace.”

Rubbish.

This one obayagbon second ooo,,,hope d IG can comprehend sha..E for use simple English na

The court will decide his fate,not the IG 😊

Seun deserves no pity. Next time he will no how to behave in public.
His fate is in the hands of the Judge not the IGP

Good talk

Everyone is using this guy's arrest to trend and make themselves look holier than thou.

You guys would be doing him more favor by minding your business.

He didn't ask for your pity.

Well done okotie.
Hope the IG listens.
To all those bashing seun, this life is turn by turn. Everybody makes mistakes, impunity might cause people to do excesses, feeling they are invincible. One day one day, they overdo, then life teaches them a lesson. They calm down after.
The other day it was portables turn, today it is seun, months ago it was rufai of arise news.

The only why some people pity Seun is simply cos of the love for Fela.