Lagos High Court Awards N5Million Damages Against Singer Oxlade Over Le@k S£x T@pe (Details)

According to Justice Olalekan Oresanya of an Ikeja High Court, the woman who sued singer Ikuforijimi Olaitan Abdulrahman, aka Oxlade, over their leaked sex tape has been awarded N5 million as damages.

The woman, John Blessing, had sued the musician on March 15, 2022, asking for N20 million in damages and a declaration that the respondent’s (Oxlade’s) act of filming his explicit sexual acts without her knowledge or consent constituted a flagrant violation of enabling laws and a grave violation of her fundamental rights to dignity, privacy, and freedom from discrimination protected by Sections 34 and 37 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), as well as Articles 5 and 21 of the Constitution.

The musician secretly recording himself having sex with John Blessing before it was posted online, according to Justice Oresanya, was despicable, horrific, distasteful, and classless.

Asides from cautioning the singer against such act in the future, the Judge also berated 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 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 attitude of the respondent towards the proceeding leaves much to be desired. The Respondent failed to appear in this court and the only reason given for the respondent?s absence by his former 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.”