KC Luxury asked a Lagos court to cancel a 30 day NDLEA detention order, saying keeping him without trial violates his rights.
A well known social media figure and businessman, Kazeem Michael Afolabi, who many people call KC Luxury, has gone to court to ask judges to set him free.
He asked the Federal High Court in Lagos to cancel a paper that allowed drug officers to keep him in a cell for thirty days without bringing him to trial.
The legal argument took place on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, inside the Federal High Court in Lagos State. KC Luxury was first arrested by officers from the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, also called NDLEA, on August 13 at the Lagos airport when he was about to board a plane to Paris. Drug officers say they are investigating him over a big seizure of cocaine.
The main reason why KC Luxury and his lawyer dragged the drug agency to court is that the law does not allow officers to lock someone up for thirty days at once without a real trial.
His lawyer told the judge that the police and drug officers can only hold a suspect for fourteen days at first while doing investigation.
Holding him in a cell for a full month without taking him to court breaks his fundamental right to freedom. He also complained that officers entered his house in Banana Island, Lagos, without a search warrant and posted his pictures on the internet to make him look like a criminal before any court found him guilty.
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Standing before Judge Friday Ogazi, the senior lawyer representing KC Luxury explained why the thirty-day detention paper must be thrown out immediately.
Explaining why the long detention order is illegal under Nigerian law, his lawyer Abdulakeem Labi Lawal, SAN, told the court that the rule is very clear.
Rejecting the 3rd day remand order, the senior lawyer stated that “the law did not permit a court to order a suspect’s remand for more than 14 days in the first instance”.
Fighting for his client to get bail or be released from the cell, the lawyer urged the judge to stop the agency from keeping him endlessly.
Speaking on the powers of drug officers, the lawyer added that “the jurisdiction to try a person charged with an offence under the NDLEA Act is fundamentally different from the jurisdiction to remand a suspect who has not yet been charged”. The judge has fixed September 21, 2026, to hear all remaining applications.
Jennifer Baba is a journalist, international news correspondent, and writer at Moderncrux, where she covers artificial intelligence, fintech, emerging technologies, global politics, and international affairs. Based in Nigeria, she is passionate about transforming complex global developments into clear, engaging stories that inform and inspire readers.
