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Trouble
currently looms for music star, Davido as the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency
has set up a panel to investigate a music video released by him, in which he
displayed a substance suspected to be hard drugs.
The video
of his track entitled, ‘Fans mi’, in which he featured an American rapper and
member of the Maybach Group, Meek Mill, showed Davido with a briefcase filled
with dollars and another bag filled with parcels of a substance suspected to be
hard drugs.
The
Director of Public Affairs of the NDLEA, Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju, told SUNDAY
PUNCH on Saturday that the investigative panel might invite the hip-hop
artiste for questioning if the need arose.
He said,
“I am aware that a panel is working on it (the video). The panel was set up
soon after the video was released few weeks ago.
“When
our attention was drawn to it, we viewed it and we discovered that it was
improper. There is no moral lesson in it and he was just advertising drug
trafficking.
“In the
video, he exchanged a brief case supposedly containing narcotics for dollars.
He was displaying affluence in the video. If it (the plot) had climaxed in an
arrest and possible detention, we would have congratulated him for partnering
with us. But the way he portrayed drug trafficking in the video was a means to
an end, which the end is a life of affluence which we disagree with.”
Ofoyeju
said the anti-drug agency would conduct a full-scale investigation into the
making of the video and to confirm whether it was censored before its release.
The NDLEA
spokesperson further said, “We are looking at the issue holistically. We
believe that there should be a body that was supposed to censor videos before
they go out. Those are the things we want to investigate and verify. Was the
video submitted for approval? If it was submitted, why was it approved, with
such content?”
NDLEA had
in June 2013 said controversial Nigerian actress, Tonto Dikeh, risked a minimum
of 15 years in jail for encouraging the consumption of hemp.
Dikeh had
on June 28, 2013, posted photographs of a wrap of hemp and grains of the weed
formed into the letters, ‘Happy birthday POKO.’
She also
posted a photograph of herself and added the inscription, ‘Mi smoke ganja mi
smoke weed while my hatez smoke ma gossip.’
Her
picture is a close-up of her face that seemed to depict her in a high state.
As a
result, the agency said it was keeping tabs on more celebrities in Nollywood
and the music industry for drug trafficking, abuse and links with drug cartels.
Additional reports from Punch
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