Veteran actress Sola Sobowale has emphatically refuted rumours of her arrest for drug trafficking in Saudi Arabia, asserting that similar false claims surfaced during a recent trip to the United Kingdom.
Recalling the ordeal during a live chat on the ‘Teju Baby Face Show,’ Sobowale dismissed the fabricated stories, including one alleging her death.
In a clip shared via her Instagram account on Wednesday, May 1, Sobowale addressed the rumours, stating, “It was written in this Nigeria that they killed me in Saudi Arabia, that I carried cocaine in Saudi Arabia, they got me arrested and there, they amputated my leg, my hand and I said to them ‘Please I’m a star in Nigeria, because of that kill me, so they killed me.'”
Refuting the baseless claims, Sobowale continued, “So when I got to Nigeria at the airport they just went berserk, they said ‘Sola Sobowale is dead now’ and I said ‘Do you believe in abracadabra?’ They said yes. ‘I have commanded everything back that’s why that’s why I’m back.'”
Asserting her innocence, she declared, “I’m alive. I’ve never been to Saudi Arabia. I don’t even know where Saudi Arabia is on the map. So how did I get there? How did they kill me there? So many negative things but to God be the glory, God has compensated me beautifully.”
According to Vanguard, this is not the first time such rumours have circulated. In 2011, similar allegations arose, but Sobowale has consistently debunked these speculations.
