Former Kogi West Senator, Barrister Dino Melaye, has “strongly criticised” President Bola Tinubu over the recent presidential pardon granted to drug offenders, arguing that the action has “wasted the many years of efforts by the National Drug Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to curtail narcotics.”
In a post shared on his verified Facebook page on Sunday evening, Melaye described the action as “unprecedented” and one that “undermines Nigeria’s anti-narcotics campaign.”
Melaye specifically wrote:“Pardon granted 70 drug lords by President Tinubu is unprecedented in history. Checks have revealed that it has never happened in the history of the world,” Melaye wrote.
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The former federal lawmaker argued that the decision “sends the wrong signal to both local and international observers” who monitor Nigeria’s efforts against drug trafficking.
Melaye offered harsh advice to the President:“My advice to the President is to scrap the NDLEA. His action has made a beautiful nonsensical of all the efforts of the agency since inception,” Melaye added.
The criticism stems from President Tinubu’s use of the prerogative of mercy on Thursday, which covered 175 individuals.
This figure included “82 inmates who were granted full pardon, 65 whose sentences were commuted, and seven death-row convicts whose sentences were reduced to life imprisonment.”
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