Justice Olalekan Oresanya of Ikeja High Court has awarded N5 million damages against singer, Ikuforijimi Olaitan Abdulrahman, aka Oxlade over his leak
Justice Olalekan Oresanya of Ikeja High Court has awarded N5 million damages against singer, Ikuforijimi Olaitan Abdulrahman, aka Oxlade over his leaked sex tape with a woman on social media app, Snapchat.
In a judgement dated 24th January 2023, Justice Oresanya described the action of the singer, in secretly recording an explicit sex with a woman and thereafter leaking it online as despicable, horrendous, distasteful and classless.
The sex tape of the singer had surfaced online in February 2022, without the knowledge and consent of the woman involved in the video.
The leaked video had sparked public outrage, and forced Oxlade to tender an apology to his fans and to the woman in the video.
The woman, John Blessing had filed a suit before the court on March 15, 2022 seeking N20 million damages and a declaration that Oxlade’s act of recording his explicit sexual acts without her knowledge and consent amounted to flagrant contravention of enabling laws and a gross violation of her fundamental rights to dignity, privacy and freedom from discrimination guaranteed under Sections 34 and 37 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended); and Articles 5 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (Ratification and Enforcement), Act, CAP A9, LFN, 2004.
After hearing from the counsel for the claimant, E. T. Idemudia and O. S. Mabekoje with U. R. Michael for the respondent, the judge had set for judgment where the parties agreed to opt for amicable resolution via a consent judgement.
Delivering judgment in the matter, Justice Oresanya chastised the singer and cautioned him against such act in his relationship with the opposite sex in the future.
By the consent judgement, Oxlade is to pay the N5 million damages awarded against him to the claimant in two instalments of N2 million and N3 million respectively.
He ordered that failure of either party to adhere to the terms shall entitle the affected party to damages for such breach, including any and all injuries incurred as a result of such disclosure.
