Kayode Shopekan
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has been accused of killing Veteran Actor Babatunde Omidina popularly known as Baba Suwe.
Speaking on TVC ‘Journalist Hangout’, TVC Head of News, Babajide Kolade-Otitoju said “the NDLEA arrested him for ingesting drugs, detained him for nine days and kept injecting him with laxative and expecting him to excrete what he did not ingest.”
Baba Suwe was arrested in 2011, at the airport by NDLEA on the premise that scanner at the airport found drugs in his body
Join our WhatsApp ChannelAccording to Kolade-Otitoju, “the late Babatunde Omidina never recovered after the crisis, physically, psychologically, and career-wise.”
Explaining further, the veteran journalist said “justice was not served in the case of late Babatunde Omidina, because he approached the court to seek redress over the maltreatment experienced in the hands of NDLEA.”
“At the end of proceedings, he was awarded N25 million, which was never paid, because NDLEA appealed the judgment and the verdict was overturned.”
The late Babatunde Omidina was very good at his profession bringing smiles and laughter to the lives of so many Nigerians but the Nigerian government took his life without a cause.
He will be fondly remembered for his comic roles in movies such “Baba Londoner, Larinlodu, Obelomo, Elebolo among others
