The Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has set up a panel to investigate a music VIDEO – Fans Mi – which was released by Nigerian artiste, Davido.
Davido displayed a substance suspected to be hard drugs in the video which also featured an American rapper and member of the Maybach Group, Meek Mill.
According to Mitchell Ofoyeju, the Director of Public Affairs of the NDLEA, who spoke with The Punch newspaper, an investigative panel has been set up to look into the video and might invite Davido if there is a need to do so.
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?”
