{"id":32000,"date":"2011-11-08T16:27:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T16:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=32000"},"modified":"2011-11-08T16:27:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T16:27:49","slug":"nigerian-comic-baba-suwe-freed-after-drug-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=32000","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian comic Baba Suwe freed after drug arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The popular Nollywood actor was greeted by a crowd outside the Ikeja High Court in Lagos <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Nigerian comic actor Babatunde Omidina, popularly known by his stage name Baba Suwe, has been freed on bail in Lagos. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">He was detained on suspicion of drug trafficking on 12 October after a body scanner at Lagos airport identified suspected drugs in his stomach. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">But after more than three weeks in jail, officials from the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) admitted he had failed to excrete any drugs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">His fans and supporters cheered as he left the building after the hearing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">His bail had been set at $3,300 (\u00a32,000). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8220;There have been several examinations carried out on him and no banned substances have so far been found,&#8221; his lawyer Bamidele Aturu told the court. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Baba Suwe is a famous comedian in Nigeria&#8217;s film industry, known as Nollywood, and his arrest shocked many of his fans. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">He acts in both English and Yoruba language films, often playing the role of a befuddled butler or security guard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular Nollywood actor was greeted by a crowd outside the Ikeja High Court in Lagos Nigerian comic actor Babatunde Omidina, popularly known by his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[745,1],"tags":[10406,10407,10670],"class_list":["post-32000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-and-entertainment","category-uncategorized","tag-baba-suwe","tag-babatunde-omidina","tag-nollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32000","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=32000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32000\/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=32000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}