ACE comedian, Babatunde Omidina, a.k.a Baba Suwe, on Monday, asked a Federal High Court in Lagos, presided over by Justice Okechukwu Okeke, to vacate an order he gave last Friday, which empowered the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to detain him for additional 15 days.
The request formed part of a motion on notice he brought, pursuant to Order 26 Rule 11 of the Federal High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2009.
The artiste, while asking for an order of the court discharging or vacating the order issued by Justice Okeke, argued that the application for the order obtained by the NDLEA was grossly irregular and constituted an abuse of the processes of the court.
In the motion filed by his counsel, Bamidele Aturu, Baba Suwe also argued that the application for the order obtained by the respondent was contrary to public policy and constituted a wanton violation of his fundamental rights.
The motion is expected to be heard tomorrow.
The NDLEA, it will be recalled, had arrested the comedian on October 12, while trying to board an Air France plane to Paris, after the scanning machine at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport had allegedly indicated that he had ingested substances suspected to be hard drugs.
Meanwhile, the NDLEA, on Monday, denied the rumour that Baba Suwe excreted wraps of cocaine or any other hard drugs.
Its spokesman, Mitchell Ofoyeju, in a telephone interview with the Nigerian Tribune, described as untrue, the rumour doing the rounds on Monday that the actor had started excreting drugs.
The rumour that Baba Suwe had excreted 16 pellets of cocaine led the Nigerian Tribune to call the NDLEA officials for confirmation, which they denied.
According to Ofoyeju, “the story is untrue, there is nothing new, he is still under observation.”
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