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Updated April 18, 2021
Ex-Lagos governor, Brigadier General Buba Marwa (rtd) resumes as the new NDLEA Chairman on January 18, 2021 in Abuja.
Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. General Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has said the agency is pressing on with its offensive action against illicit drugs production laboratories and farms because of the threat they pose to Nigeria’s national security.
Gen. Marwa stated this in his presentation on the national drug control master plan at a side event at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs conference taking place in Vienna, Austria.
According to him,
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By Kingsley Omonobi, Abuja
Imagine what would have been if illicit drugs with a cash value of over N75 billion were to circulate in streets across Nigeria and getting to 15 million people.
Also imagine what would have been without the arrest of over 2,175 suspected drug traffickers and barons in three months, and stopping the injection of over 2 million kilograms of assorted dangerous illicit drugs into an already charged volatile society where drugs, ‘a defeatist cover’, are now seen as a way out.
On top of this, the agency charged with the responsibility of checkmating drug abuse has filed about 2,000 cases in court with 329 convictions while 1,549 cases are pending.
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A photo released by the Nigerian Army on April 14, 2021, shows Buba Marwa and Ibrahim Attahiru addressing reporters in Abuja.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) is seeking collaboration with the Nigerian Army in the area of training and for professional support to boost the fight against illicit drugs and drug trafficking in the country.
NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Brigadier-General Buba Marwa, stated this on Wednesday when he visited the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru, at the Army Headquarters in Abuja.
He explained that the fight against drug abuse, like other enforcement campaigns, needed further training of NDLEA personnel to enhance operational efficiency.