Popular Yoruba Actor Arrested on Cocaine Possession – Punch



Posted: October 13, 2011 - 17:17








Babatunde Omidina, aka Baba Suwe



By SaharaReporters, New York/Punch

Nollywood actor and comedian Babatunde Omidina, aka Baba Suwe, has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for alledgedly concealing drugs in his stomach.



The actor was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on Wednesday night as he tried to board an Air France flight to Paris. The drugs were allegedly discovered in the 53-year-old actor‘s stomach as he passed through the scanning machine at the airport and he was immediately arrested and detained at the airport.

He was said to have denied swallowing hard drugs and was subsequently put under observation.






The spokesman for the NDLEA, Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju, confirmed the development.

A Nollywood actress, Hassanat Taiwo Akinwande, was caught with drugs in September 2006 at the same airport by the NDLEA and eventually excreted 92 wraps of high-quality cocaine weighing 1.214 kg. She was sentenced to three years in prison or N1 million fine on January 25, 2007.

Another Nollywood actor, Uche Odoputa, was also arrested with cocaine at the MMIA on March 23, 2007 on his way to London and sentenced to eight months in prison.