Huhuonline.com can
report that the torment faced by popular Yoruba actor and comedian,
Babatunde Omidina, popularly known as Baba Suwe, in the hands of the
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for alleged drug
trafficking may have
come to a sudden end as he was Friday morning released by the agency .
Justice Yetunde Idowu of the Ikeja High Court had granted the request by ordering NDLEA to release Baba Suwe on bail at the termination of Federal High Court order.
The presiding judge had expressed shock at the kind of inhuman treatment that was meted on the Nollywood actor by officials of the NDLEA, despite the order of the court, saying, “I don`t feel comfortable about that. I feel the agency should not treat him (Baba Suwe) anyhow.”
The end to Baba Suwe’s travails followed an order of the Ikeja High Court which directed that the comedian be released on bail on Friday, November 4, 2011 since no drug was found on him after his counsel, Bamidele Aturu, in an ex-parte motion application had asked the Court to order NDLEA to release his client from detention and incarceration.
Aturu, while describing NDLEA’s abuse of his client’s fundamental rights vowed to pursue the matter to a logical conclusion, even as NDLEA had plans to apologise if Baba Suwe fails to excrete the suspected drug.
“They would do more than apologies. Heads must roll in the organisation. They better start to look for other jobs. It is as simple as that.”
“This is the 24th day that my client has been in their detention. They have been conducting all sorts of tests on him and found nothing. It is also noteworthy that my client did not eat on Tuesday night, apparently they were preparing him for the tests”, Aturu told the court.
The NDLEA had obtained an order to detain the Nollywood actor for 15 days after he had spent 11 days in detention which was granted by Justice Okechukwu Okeke of Federal High Court, Lagos.
Meanwhile, Baba Suwe, had told the Court about his ordeal in the hands of the anti-narcotics agency, explaining how he was induced at an undisclosed hospital at Ikoyi, Lagos where he subsequently excreted six times on Wednesday.
“On Wednesday, they came and said we were going to the hospital. When we got there, they put something in my mouth and pump water into it. After, they also put another thing in my anus and pump something into it. After, I started excreting. I went to the toilet six times that day. Since that day, I have been going to the toilet.”
But Counsel to the NDLEA, Mr. Femi Oloruntoba, who feigned ignorance at the several tests conducted on Baba Suwe, said that NDLEA’s request for the continued detention of Omidina was to enable the agency conclude its investigation at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja on the narcotic substance he was alleged to have ingested.
Baba Suwe is reported to have regained his freedom at about 10.53 am, while the case is adjourned till November 23, 2011, for judgement.
come to a sudden end as he was Friday morning released by the agency .
Justice Yetunde Idowu of the Ikeja High Court had granted the request by ordering NDLEA to release Baba Suwe on bail at the termination of Federal High Court order.
The presiding judge had expressed shock at the kind of inhuman treatment that was meted on the Nollywood actor by officials of the NDLEA, despite the order of the court, saying, “I don`t feel comfortable about that. I feel the agency should not treat him (Baba Suwe) anyhow.”
The end to Baba Suwe’s travails followed an order of the Ikeja High Court which directed that the comedian be released on bail on Friday, November 4, 2011 since no drug was found on him after his counsel, Bamidele Aturu, in an ex-parte motion application had asked the Court to order NDLEA to release his client from detention and incarceration.
Aturu, while describing NDLEA’s abuse of his client’s fundamental rights vowed to pursue the matter to a logical conclusion, even as NDLEA had plans to apologise if Baba Suwe fails to excrete the suspected drug.
“They would do more than apologies. Heads must roll in the organisation. They better start to look for other jobs. It is as simple as that.”
“This is the 24th day that my client has been in their detention. They have been conducting all sorts of tests on him and found nothing. It is also noteworthy that my client did not eat on Tuesday night, apparently they were preparing him for the tests”, Aturu told the court.
The NDLEA had obtained an order to detain the Nollywood actor for 15 days after he had spent 11 days in detention which was granted by Justice Okechukwu Okeke of Federal High Court, Lagos.
Meanwhile, Baba Suwe, had told the Court about his ordeal in the hands of the anti-narcotics agency, explaining how he was induced at an undisclosed hospital at Ikoyi, Lagos where he subsequently excreted six times on Wednesday.
“On Wednesday, they came and said we were going to the hospital. When we got there, they put something in my mouth and pump water into it. After, they also put another thing in my anus and pump something into it. After, I started excreting. I went to the toilet six times that day. Since that day, I have been going to the toilet.”
But Counsel to the NDLEA, Mr. Femi Oloruntoba, who feigned ignorance at the several tests conducted on Baba Suwe, said that NDLEA’s request for the continued detention of Omidina was to enable the agency conclude its investigation at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja on the narcotic substance he was alleged to have ingested.
Baba Suwe is reported to have regained his freedom at about 10.53 am, while the case is adjourned till November 23, 2011, for judgement.
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