Human Rights Writers' Association of
Nigeria, (HURIWA) has reacted to the
controversy trailing an alleged
marijuana picture posted online by
popular actress, Tonto Dikeh.
The actress had posted the picture on
the social media, an act which drew
the attention of the National Drugs
Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
Its spokesman Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju,
in his reaction had said that "The law
is clear and NDLEA has been very
clear on the issue. No one is
permitted to sell, use, cultivate or
encourage the use of Indian hemp in
Nigeria. The substance is one of the
banned narcotics in the country."
In a statement jointly issued by the
National Coordinator, Comrade
Emmanuel Onwubiko and National
media Director, Miss. Zainab Yusuf,
HURIWA said the anti-drug agency was
"chasing shadows by threatening to
arrest a Nigerian citizen whose alleged
'marijuana photograph' does not
constitute hard core judicial evidence
but rather a social media contraption
that may never stand credibility test in
the competent court of law."
HURIWA urged NDLEA not to waste
taxpayers' fund in pursuing a matter
that is substantially irrelevant and
lacks proof.
The Rights group tasked the agency to
instead extend its dragnet and arrest
high profile drug barons and peddlers
rather than engage in 'meaningless
voyage of discovery' and 'attention
seeking' in the media which the Rights
group described as 'witch- hunting'
and an elaborate attempt to
undermine the fundamental freedoms
of the actress- Miss Tonto Dike who is
now being framed up with a trumped
up charge of posting 'marijuana
photograph' on the social media.
It advised the NDLEA to concentrate
on how to repair its public image
damaged by the costly mistake it
made during the arrest, detention and
investigation of the popular Yoruba
comedian Baba Suwe (the popular
expensive faecis/excreta gamble by
the NDLEA)".
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