Former Kogi West Senator, Barrister Dino Melaye, has fiercely criticized President Bola Tinubu’s recent presidential pardon of drug offenders, arguing it undermines decades of efforts by the National Drug Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to combat narcotics trafficking.
In a Sunday evening post on his verified Facebook page, Melaye labeled the pardon as unprecedented and damaging to Nigeria’s anti-drug campaign.
“President Tinubu’s pardon of 70 drug lords is a historic first. Research shows no such action has ever been taken globally,” he stated.
Melaye warned that the decision sends a discouraging message to both domestic and international stakeholders invested in Nigeria’s fight against drug trafficking.
“The President should consider scrapping the NDLEA, as this move renders all its efforts since its inception utterly meaningless,” he remarked.
Recall On Thursday, President Tinubu exercised his prerogative of mercy, granting full pardons to 82 inmates, commuting sentences for 65 others, and reducing the sentences of seven death-row convicts to life imprisonment, totaling 175 beneficiaries.
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