Comedian, Basketmouth, has berated operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA, for arresting skit maker, Sunday Joshua aka D-General, over what he described as a ”pinch of weed”.
NDLEA operatives stormed DGeneral’s home in Lagos on Wednesday January 12, and arrested him. A video of the operatives manhandling him after they invaded his home to arrest him was shared online.
In a statement released, NDLEA said illicit drugs including 200 sachets of 225mg Tramadol and 1.5kilograms of cannabis sativa were recovered from the skit makers house.
In a video shared on his Instastories, Basketmouth said Nigeria has bigger issues to contend with than arresting the skit maker.
He said the NDLEA operatives know those who carry weed and that they should have ”small shame” and stop embarrassing people.
Basketmouth said: “When I saw the news I thought NDLEA saw like 300kg of drugs in the comedian’s house or he’ll be a drug dealer but I saw just a small quantity that can just roll two or three sticks.
“I’m thinking how the NDLEA feel after the raid, you should have small shame you know people carrying weed in large quantities.
“We have bigger problems to worry about, these boys need those things to smoke because headlines in Nigeria recently can make you take cocaine. This country you need it to normalize yourself.
“All these things the boys are doing is therapeutic. I’m not supporting the use of marijuana but I’m saying you guys are wasting taxpayers’ money to arrest the likes of Degeneral with small ‘Igbo’.”