Senator Oyelola Ashiru has described as fallacious the impressions created by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) that persons abusing drugs and a cache of drugs where found in his home.
In a statement issued by Olaitan Adeyanju,
Legislative Aide to Senator Ashiru, on Monday, the lawmaker said he doesn’t have any connection with drug trafficking or abuse of banned substances.
Adeyanju noted with dismay that Senator Ashiru’s house in Ilorin, Kwara State, was raided, with the NDLEA announcing that illicit drugs were found, adding that the accusation from the agency comes on the heels of Senator Ashiru’s declaration on the floor of the Senate that the NDLEA is corrupt.
The statement read part: “We find it preposterous and mere fishing for justification that NDLEA had to wait for the senator’s observation on the floor the Senate before making its spurious allegations.
“As a matter of fact, Senator Ashiru never employed any aide bearing Ibrahim Mohammed or Mohammd Yahaya as bandied by NDLEA.
“The agency claimed that it operatives visited the senator’s Ilorin house and found nothing incriminating. The entire house was searched, and nothing incriminating was found. If any drugs were found on certain persons mentioned by the NDLEA, it is rational to ask at which court of law were the culprits charged”?
“It is also important to state that Senator Ashiru has not sent any aide to the NDLEA to influence the dropping of drug allegations against anyone known as Tosin Odepidian. Indeed, all the names mentioned by the agency are strange, and none works directly or indirectly with Senator Ashiru”, the stament further read.
Adeyanju urged the NDLEA to carry out its functions professionally the duty by investigating and charging anyone suspected of drug dealing to court rather than name- calling and engaging in media trial.
Adeyanju added: ” This clarification is necessary to set the record straight and address the misleading information circulated by the NDLEA.
“It is an open secret that many criminals, cultists, armed robbers, and drug addicts find their way back into business after gratifying and bribing law enforcement officers.
“The NDLEA ought to search its house and fish out bad eggs rather than seek cheap publicity”.
Adeyanju emphasised that Senator Ashiru remains committed to serving the people of Kwara South and upholding the truth at all times.
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