Oxlade S3x tape: Court orders singer to pay N5m damages over leaked video

Justice O.A Oresanya of the Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has awarded N5 million damages against Nigerian Afrobeat singer and songwriter, Ikuforijimi Olaitan Abdulrahman, popularly known as Oxlade over a leaked explicit sex tape with the claimant, Blessing John on Snapchat, without her consent.

The leaked video led to a public outcry, forcing singer Oxlade to issue an apology to his fans, his family, and the woman in the video.

In a judgement dated January 24, 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.”

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The claimant, Blessing John filed a suit before the court on March 15, 2022 seeking N20 million damages and a declaration that the respondent (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.

Justice Oresanya also berated the singer for treating the judicial process with disrespect and accused his counsel of aiding him in desecrating the temple of justice.

The judge who entered the Terms of Settlement dated 11th of January, 2023, ordered Oxlade to pay the sum of N5 million damages to Blessing in two instalments of N3 million and N2 million, respectively.