The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has disclosed that controversial rapper, Speed Darlington, has been placed on security watchlist over an allegation that he had sexual activity with a minor.
Naijaonpoint reports that this was made known by NAPTIP’s Director of Legal and Prosecution, Mrs Ijeoma Amugo, during a press conference to begin the 2025 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence in Abuja.
According to NAPTIP, Speed, also known as Akpi, was placed on the watchlist after he repeatedly failed to honour invitations to meet investigators in Abuja.
The agency said the case is linked to an Instagram live video where he allegedly claimed he had sexual relations with a 15-year-old girl, adding that the rapper did not cooperate and instead went online to attack the agency.
“What he did was to preemptively try to intimidate us by going to social media to say that he wouldn’t come and that he wouldn’t respond to us, claiming we were violating his human rights.
“We tried our best to physically locate him because you have to locate the suspect before justice can be served,” she stated.
Amugo explained that investigators could not find him at known addresses and later received intelligence that he had left Nigeria.
“Our last information is that he’s outside Nigeria. We’ve placed him on watchlist. The moment he steps back into the country, we’ll pick up the investigation.
“As I speak to you, the last report we have is that he’s outside the country and we have not heard from him. We have placed him on watchlist. Anytime he enters Nigeria, NAPTIP will continue the investigation from where we stopped. That is the status of the case for now,” she said.
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