For some days now, top Yoruba actor, Babatunde Omidina, who is well known as Baba Suwe has been in the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for an alleged drug ingestion offence.
Though the development has been very messy, especially in the first seven days the veteran comic actor had been with the drug enforcement agency, the new turn of event has made it even messier.
Before now, there had been insinuations around that some big wigs in the society who might be linked with the drug offence were fighting hard to die down the case just as it has been allegedly done in the time past.
In some quarters, there were insinuations that some top Nollywood heavyweights were trying to cover up for Baba Suwe by making sure he was not exposed, and also making a compromise on the issue with some powers that be in high places.
But ?top Nollywood actress, Rachael Oniga has come out to debunk any such allegations. According to her, “the point I must tell you is that the serious and professionals among the actors don’t do drugs or get involved in drugs. So, there is no reason for any cover up by some of us to sweep the case under carpet. To my own knowledge, there is nothing of such.”
Those in the know had alleged that some big wigs in the make-believe industry are seriously fighting hard not to expose Baba Suwe of an alleged attempt to traffic substances suspected to be narcotic drug out of the country when he was arrested some days ago by the?NDLEA operatives at the Lagos airport.
This insinuation was further buttressed in a press release by the Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts Practitioners (ANTP) on Thursday October 20, when the former president of the body, Prince Jide Kosoko said, “the unethical proceedings (of NDLEA) have not only brought untold humiliation, bad press and unprecedented public outcry against Baba Suwe; it has equally brought our industry and all theatre practitioners into public odium.
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