Ace Nigerian comic actor Babatunde Omidina popularly known as Baba Suwe is set to release a new movie titled O’ya gbe ti based on his experience and ordeal with the NDLEA.
He made this known in a recent interview he had with Tofariti Ige and Joy Marcus of Punch.
The actor was arrested in 2011 by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Muritala Muhammed Airport, for drug trafficking. But after all the interrogations and search no drug was found on him. The Court of Law instructed NDLEA to pay the actor a sum of #25million and tender him a public apology, none of has been met till date, according to baba suwe.
Read excerpts of his Interview with Punch below .
When asked about the nature of his Illness :
I am diabetic. As a result of that, my blood sugar level usually fluctuates but things are normal now. There was a time when I could not even talk. Very soon though, everybody will see me in another dimension in a movie.<
On if his detention at NDLEA worsened his health:
Yes, it did. I believe I was framed up in that particular case. That wasn’t my first time of travelling out of the country and I had never been arrested for something like that. They took me to a lot of big hospitals and laboratories but nothing was found in me. The judge who handled the case later told the NDLEA that if they did not retrieve any illegal substance from me, they should let me go.
On the day I was arraigned in court, the crowd that came to witness it was so massive; you would have thought they came to see a movie. At a point, I couldn’t bear it anymore and I shed tears. I was made to sleep on a bench in an office at the airport throughout the time I was in NDLEA’s custody. I usually ate three times in a day and I excreted more than 30 times while I was there; yet they couldn’t find anything. I was even taken to a place where they flushed my insides with water and they still came up with nothing.
When asked if he’s considering making a movie on his ordeal, he said: “Yes, it will be out soon. The title will be, ‘Oya’gbe ti’.”
Photo Credit: Getty/Punch
