NDLEA Asks Court To Suspend Baba Suwe Settlement

By Osagie Alonge

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency today, Wednesday, February 8, 2011, asked the Ikeja High Court to temporarily suspend the execution of an earlier court judgment directing the agency to pay Nigerian actor Baba Suwe N25M.

Presiding judge Justice Yetunde Idowu had on Thursday, November 24, 2011 ordered the agency to compensate the comedic actor for his unlawful detention.

‘If you can treat a Nigerian citizen this way, what are you portraying to the outside world?’, the judge said.

‘The client’s case is valid and we are prepared to follow this case to the very end‘, the actor’s counsel Bamidele Aturu told NET in a phone conversation earlier today.

On Wednesday, October 12, 2011, Baba Suwe was taken into custody by the Agency, after being suspected of attempted cocaine trafficking. He was detained for a period of 24 days.

He was released on the order of Justice Idowu on November 4 after the NDLEA could not find substantial evidence to detain him further.

The ruling on the application has been fixed by the judge for March 2.

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4. ‘He Was Treated Fairly’, NDLEA Responds To Baba Suwe Claims
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