BABA SUWE

Court grants NDLEA power to detain Baba Suwe for 15 more days.

Justice Okechukwu Okeke of the Federal High Court, Lagos has acceded to a request by the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency to further detain actor, Babatunde Omodina, (a.k.a Baba Suwe) for 15 more days.
Justice Okeke’s permission was contained in a ruling he read yesterday after entertaining arguments on an ex-parte application from NDLEA’s lawyer, Theresa Asuquo.
The application was supported by a 29-paragraph affidavit deposed to by an NDLEA intelligence officer, Femi Johnson Osifuye, and a CT scan result issued by a consultant radiologist with the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Subhash Vijayvargiya.
Osifuye averred that the result confirmed that actor has large amount of narcotic drugs in his body.
The NDLEA had arrested the actor on October 12 while attempting to board an Air France plane to Paris on suspicion that the scanning machine at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport indicated that he had ingested substances suspected to be hard drugs.
Osifuye further averred that following Baba Suwe’s arrest, the man was placed on observation pending when he would defecate the ingested substances, but that while on observation, the actor refused to eat claiming that he eats only once in three days.
He added that as a result of Baba Suwe’s refusal to eat, he had not excreted the ingested substances.
Osifuye stated that after the comedian made the second excretion and no substance was found, the NDLEA had to take him to LASUTH for another CT scan for a second opinion on whether he indeed ingested the narcotic drugs, and the test confirmed a large amount of drugs in his body.
He further stated that with the confirmation that the actor still has hard drugs in his stomach, he is bound to excrete it with time.
He contended that the detained actor’s case was not an isolated one as it takes some suspects a longer time to excrete than others, hence the need to further keep him in custody.
Osifuye asserted that it would take the detained actor about five to seven days to complete excreting the whole drugs in his stomach.
He added that the suspect must be in custody for the agency to retrieve the ingested drugs.
Osifuye stressed that it would be in the interest of the suspect to excrete the ingested substances so as to prevent them from bursting in his abdomen, a situation the agency argued might lead to his death.