Former Senator Dino Melaye has slammed President Bola Tinubu’s recent presidential pardon, claiming that a large number of those pardoned were convicted for drug-related offences
In a post on X on Sunday, Melaye alleged that around 70 of the 175 individuals granted clemency were drug offenders, describing the move as “unprecedented in history.”
He added that no government in the world has ever issued such a large-scale pardon to convicted drug criminals.
“Pardon granted to 70 drug lords by President Tinubu is unprecedented in history. Checks have revealed that it has never happened anywhere in the world. My advice to the President is to scrap the NDLEA. His action has rendered the agency’s efforts meaningless since its inception,” Melaye wrote.
President Tinubu recently extended clemency to 175 persons, including notable figures such as the late environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, nationalist Herbert Macaulay, Major General Mamman Vatsa, and Maryam Sanda, who had been sentenced to death for the murder of her husband.
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