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Sex tape: Court awards N5m against ‘classless’ Oxlade
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Leaked s3x tape: Court awards N5 million damages against singer Oxlade
Justice O. A. Oresanya of the Lagos State High Court has fined musician, Ikuforijimi Abdulrahman, nicknamed Oxlade, N5 million in damages for leaking his explicit sex clip with a woman on the social media app, Snapchat.
On February 9, 2022, a sex tape of the musician went viral online, and he later apologised to his followers.
On Tuesday, January 24, 2023, the court condemned the singer’s actions in surreptitiously filming the explicit intercourse and sharing the footage online as “despicable, horrendous, distasteful and classless.”
Blessing, the claimant in the case, had filed a lawsuit before the court on March 15, 2022, seeking N20 million in damages and a declaration that the respondent’s (Oxlade’s) act of filming their sexual actions without her knowledge or consent violated enabling laws and gravely violated her fundamental rights to dignity, privacy, and freedom from discrimination protected by sections 34 and 37 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and Articles 5 of the Africa Charter.
When the case came up, the court was prepared to rule when E. T. Idemudia and O. S. Mabekoje, attorneys for the claimant, and U. R. Michael, an attorney for the respondent, announced their arrival and all parties decided to settle the dispute amicably through a consent judgement.
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Justice Oresanya, however, blasted the musician.
“The action and attitude of the respondent (Oxlade), who is said to be a celebrity, is despicable, horrendous, distasteful and classless. The respondent is admonished strongly to act with utmost circumspection in his relationship with fellow humans, especially the opposite sex. What goes around comes around. I need not say more,” the judge said.
Prior to that, Justice Oresanya faulted Oxlade for treating the judicial process with disrespect and accused his lawyer of aiding him to desecrate the temple of justice.
The judge said, “The respondent failed to appear in this court and the only reason given for the respondent’s absence by his erstwhile counsel was the celebrity status of the respondent, which to my mind cannot be equated to that of many notable celebrity artistes in this country who have comported themselves well respectably both within and outside of this country.
“Counsel, as ministers in the temple of justice, should never encourage any party to a lawsuit or client in treating the temple of justice with disrespect and disdain no matter the status of the client in the society.”
The judge thereafter entered the terms of settlement dated January 11, 2023, as the judgment of the court.
“By the consent judgement, Oxlade is to pay damages to the tune of N5m to the claimant in two instalments of N2m and N3m respectively,” Oresanya added.