NDLEA Clarify Naira Marley Visit – NDLEA which means “National Drug Law Enforcement Agency” speaks on the visit of the nigeria music star Afeez Adeshina Fashola, popularly known as Naira Marley. The Agency made it open that the visit was not for an ambassadorial role.
However, The Nigeria music star (Naira Marley) had visited the agency’s Abuja headquarters earlier in the week where he spoke against drug abuse, urging Nigerians to avoid drugs.
Social media was eager in the wake of the development hence many claimed the singer bagged an ambassadorial deal with the agency during the visit. But the Agency has disproved the claim, describing it as “misleading” and an “absolute falsehood”.
Naira Marley Is Not Our Ambassador(NDLEA)
However, The NDLEA spokesman Femi Babafemi on Saturday said its engagement with the star was “to encourage him to use his skills and platforms to put out content that will discourage millions of his followers and Nigerian youths from substance abuse”.
This explanation became necessary following the continued misrepresentation of the purpose of the visit especially on social media platforms where some reports assumed the singer has become NDLEA ambassador.
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However, This is totally a falsehood and absolute misleading as the pictures of the visit and the short video containing Naira Marley’s advocacy message to his followers were properly captioned and shared by the Agency without any suggestion of such an appointment.
The resolution by the Agency to encourage the singer which has over seven million followers, half the population of those who abuse drugs in Nigeria, to use his platform to share anti-substance abuse messages
as against using same to promote and glamorize the abuse of drugs with the dire consequence of deceiving millions of Nigerian youths into their destruction, is to create a balance between our drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts.
However, This is also in line with the Agency’s whole society approach to the fight against drug misuse and in tune with global best practices as well as the theme for this year’s World Drug Day; People First: Stop Stigma and Discrimination, Strengthen Prevention.
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