NDLEA to interrogate Davido over new video featuring Meek Mills

The Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency has set up a panel to probe a recently released music video by Afro-pop singer, Davido. The investigative panel set up by the agency may also invite the award-winning artiste for interrogation.

In the video of his single titled, ‘Fans Mi’, which featured American rapper, Meek Mill, the singer showed off a briefcase filled with dollars and another bag filled with parcels of a substance suspected to be hard drugs.

The Director of Public Affairs of the NDLEA, Mitchell Ofoyeju, revealed to Punch on Saturday that an investigative panel has been set up to look into the video.

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.”

“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?”