The presiding judge, Justice Yetunde Idowu in her ruling on Friday, ordered that the anti-drug agency, deposit the sum with the Chief Registrar of the Court, who would in turn deposit the money into an interest yielding account pending the determination of an appeal filed against her judgment by the agency at the Court of Appeal in Lagos.
Justice Idowu had ruled in November 2011 that the comic be paid N25 million for denying his rights to personal freedom.
The actor had sued the agency for N100 million following his trial and long detention after he was arrested for allegedly concealing drugs in his stomach in 2011.
