The video titled, ‘Fans mi’, in which he featured an American rapper and member of the Maybach Group, Meek Mill, portrayed Davido with a briefcase filled with dollars with another bag filled with package of a substance suspected to be hard drugs.
Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju the director of Public Affairs of the NDLEA told SUNDAY PUNCH on Saturday that the investigative section might invite the hip-hop artiste for questioning if the need arose.
The director said:
“I am aware that a section is working on it (the video). The section 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 virtual lesson in the video but advertisement of drug trafficking.
In the video, he exchanged a brief case supposedly containing narcotics for dollars. He was showing an indigence in the video. If it had point of grate force 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 influx 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 NDLEA said it was keeping run on more celebrities in Nollywood and the music industry for drug trafficking, abuse and links with drug industries.
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