BREAKING: Detained Musician Rolex Dee’s Bail Stalled As Oyo Land Registry Delays Document Verification | Sahara Reporters

Court registry officials confirmed that a formal request for verification was sent to the Oyo State Land Registry on September 17, 2026, a day after the sureties were presented.

The continued detention of Nigerian musician and social media critic Afunsho Ridwan Abiola, popularly known as Rolex Dee, has been prolonged by an alleged delay in the verification of a property document submitted to perfect his bail conditions.

SaharaReporters gathered that Damilare Adenola, legal representative for the detained musician, presented the required sureties before the Federal High Court in Ibadan on September 16, 2026, to perfect the bail conditions granted to his client.

As part of the requirements, one of the sureties surrendered an official land title document to the court as evidence of the property being used to secure the bail.

However, the completion of the bail process has reportedly been stalled because the Oyo State Land Registry has yet to verify the document.

Court registry officials confirmed that a formal request for verification was sent to the Oyo State Land Registry on September 17, 2026, a day after the sureties were presented.

But more than a week later, the registry had reportedly not responded to the court’s request or completed the verification required for the bail to be perfected.

An investigation by SaharaReporters found that the delay is allegedly linked to the official assigned to process the verification request.

Sources familiar with the matter alleged that the official has failed to attend to the file, while reportedly accompanying political figures to campaign activities across Oyo State.

The development has effectively left Rolex Dee in custody despite his legal representative having presented the sureties and property documentation required by the court.

The latest development comes months after SaharaReporters reported that the musician and social media influencer had been detained following allegations of defamation involving Fuji musician Taiwo Akande Adebisi, popularly known as Taye Currency.

In April, Kayode Babayomi, Chairman of the African Action Congress (AAC) in Oyo State, accused Taye Currency of using his influence to involve the police in the dispute with Rolex Dee.

Babayomi alleged that Rolex Dee was arrested in Lagos on April 24 and subsequently taken to Ibadan, where he was detained at the Oyo State Anti-Cultism Squad facility in Iyaganku.

The AAC chairman described the dispute as a civil matter arising from allegations of defamation and questioned the use of police powers in the matter.

“We maintain that this is a civil matter that should not involve the police. Taye Currency ought to have approached the court through a civil process rather than using law enforcement as a tool for intimidation and oppression,”

Babayomi also questioned the continued detention of Rolex Dee, alleging at the time that the police had not filed the case before a High Court or provided a hearing date for bail.

“As of now, the police have yet to file the case in a High Court or provide a hearing date for bail.”

He further alleged that there had been previous attempts to lure Rolex Dee through deceptive means before his arrest.

The latest delay, however, concerns the perfection of bail already granted by the Federal High Court in Ibadan.

With the property document still awaiting verification by the Oyo State Land Registry, the detained musician remains in custody.