Former lawmaker, Senator Dino Melaye has lambasted President Bola Tinubu over the recent presidential clemency granted to some inmates, accusing the president of granting pardon to about 70 individuals convicted for drug-related offences.
Melaye, in a post on X on Sunday, described the President’s action as “unprecedented in history,” claiming that no other government in the world had ever granted such large-scale pardon to convicted drug offenders.
“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. My advice to the President is to scrap the NDLEA. His action has made a beautiful nonsense of all the efforts of the agency since inception.”
President Tinubu recently granted a presidential pardon to 175 persons, including late environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, nationalist Herbert Macaulay, Major General Mamman Vatsa, and Maryam Sanda, who was sentenced to death for killing her husband, amongst others.
