PRESIDENT of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has attributed the lingering insecurity to the funding activities of drug barons who provide insurgent groups such
Udora Orizu in Abuja
The Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brigadier General Buba Marwa (rtd), disclosed that his agency in the past six weeks has intercepted and destroyed illicit drugs worth over N60 billion.
Marwa made the disclosure during an advocacy visit to the House of Representatives Committee on Drugs and Narcotics, chaired by Hon. Francis Ottah Agbo.
He said all strata of the Nigerian society must join in to the fight to control the drug trade in Nigeria.
According to him, ‘’Nigeria today is in a serious dilemma on the drug scourge. The problem of drug abuse is everywhere now; every community in Nigeria has a drug problem. It’s also fueling the criminality going on in the country. Nobody in his right senses will wake up and say he wants to kidnap 300 children, if he is not under the influence of drugs.
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By Tordue Salem, Abuja
The Chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brigadier-General Buba Marwa(rtd), on Thursday disclosed before the House of Representatives, that his agency intercepted and destroyed illicit drugs worth over an N60billion.
Marwa, a former military Governor of Lagos and Borno States, made the disclosure to the House Committee on Drugs and Narcotics, chaired by Rep. Francis Ottah Agbo(PDP-Benue).
The ex-Governor of Lagos was on an advocacy visit to the committee.
But in the course of briefing the committee on the needs of the NDLEA, he lamented the decay and challenges of the agency, as he briefed the committee on some of his achievements at the agency within a short time.