Former federal lawmaker Senator Dino Melaye has lambasted President Bola Tinubu for granting presidential pardon to "70 drug lords".
NATIONAL POST recalls that president Tinubu on Thursday, granted clemency to about 175 convicts including drug traffickers.
Reacting, Melaye in a post on Facebook on Sunday night wondered why the president granted pardon to such convicts, describing the action as nonsensical.
The former lawmaker called for the scrapping of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA, stating that the president's action made the efforts of the agency useless.
He wrote, "Pardon granted 70 drug lords by Pres Tinubu is unprecedented in history. Checks have revealed that it has never happened in the history of the world.
"My advise to the President is to scrap the NDLEA. His action has made a beautiful nonsensical of all the efforts of the agency since inception".
