Court Ordered NDLEA To Pay Baba Suwe N25,000,000

An Ikeja High Court on Friday  ordered the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to deposit the N25 million judgment sum awarded in favour of Nollywood Star, Babatunde Omidina (a.k.a Baba Suwe) with the court’s Chief Registrar.

Justice Yetunde Idowu ordered that the deposit should be made within the next 21 days.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the judge had on Nov. 24, 2011 ordered the NDLEA to pay Omidina the money as damages.

The money was to compensate Omidina for his arrest and detention by the agency for nine days without a valid court order.

The court also ordered the agency to publish a public apology to Omidina in two widely read national dailies.

The judge said :``The N25 million is to be deposited with the registrar in an interest-yielding account and in a bank agreed upon by the parties in the suit.

``This should be done pending hearing and determination of the appeal filed by the NDLEA against the court's judgment at the Appeal Court in Lagos.