After a protracted legal struggle about his leaked sex tape case, Nigerian singer and songwriter Oxlade has been fined $5 million.
The woman who was shown in the video with the singer was given the money by an Ikeja High Court in Lagos State. The complainant was only known as Blessing.
The musician who recorded their sexual behaviour was called “despicable, horrendous, classless and distasteful” by Justice Olalekan Oresanya in a ruling issued on January 24, 2023.
This comes after Blessing sued the court in March 2022, requesting $20 million in damages after the sex footage emerged online.
She also demanded a declaration that the singer had flagrantly violated the enabling laws, violated her fundamental rights to dignity, privacy, and freedom from discrimination, as guaranteed by Sections 34 and 37 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and Article 5 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (Ratification and Enforcement), Act, CAP A9, LFN, 2004. The singer had secretly recorded his explicit sexual acts.
Meanwhile, the judge ordered Oxlade to pay the sum of ₦5million damages to Blessing in two instalments of ₦3 million and ₦2 million, respectively.
This comes after Oxlade went viral on social media on February 9, 2022, after a video purporting to be the Afrobeats musician, known in real life as Ikuforiji Olaitan Abdulrahman, supposedly having sex with a lady breached the internet.
Shortly after going viral, the claimed tape—which was purportedly shared on Snapchat—found its way onto the microblogging platform.
