Popular Nigerian comedian Baba Suwe has been detained at Lagos airport on suspicion of drug trafficking.<\/p>\n
He was arrested as he was about to board a flight to Paris after a body scanner identified suspected drugs in his stomach, an official said.<\/p>\n
Mr Suwe’s detention has shocked Nigerians as he is a much-loved comedian, the BBC’s Chris Ewokor in the capital, Abuja, says.<\/p>\n
Mr Suwe, who was arrested on Wednesday, has not yet been charged.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for Nigeria’s \u00a0National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Ofoyeju Mitchell, told the BBC that Mr Suwe, 53, had been under “observation” since his arrest.<\/p>\n
‘Befuddled butler’<\/strong><\/p>\n It was suspected that he ingested the drugs and investigators were waiting to see whether he would excrete them, Mr Mitchell said.<\/p>\n Mr Suwe was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria’s main city, after going through a body scanner before catching an Air France flight to Paris.<\/p>\n Mr Suwe, whose real name is Babatunde Omidina, is a famous comedian in Nigeria’s film industry, known as Nollywood, says our correspondent.<\/p>\n He acts in both English and Yoruba language films, often playing the role of a befuddled butler or security guard.<\/p>\n President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Segun Arinze, said Mr Suwe’s arrest was unfortunate.<\/p>\n “If truly he is arrested in connection with drugs, he has come to the end of his career,” he toldNigeria’s Vanguard newspaper.<\/p>\n Nigeria is a popular transit point for drugs to Europe and the US.<\/p>\n BBC News<\/em><\/p>\n Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Popular Nigerian comedian Baba Suwe has been detained at Lagos airport on suspicion of drug trafficking. He was arrested as he was about to board […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[745,1],"tags":[10406,10407],"class_list":["post-30901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-and-entertainment","category-uncategorized","tag-baba-suwe","tag-babatunde-omidina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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