Marwa to commission drug rehabilitation centre in Ogbomoso
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Mohamed Marwa, NDLEA boss.
The Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brigadier General Mohammed Buba Marwa will on Friday (March 19) commission a newly built multi-purpose Clinic and rehabilitation centre in Ogbomoso in Oyo State.
The 16-bed Rehabilitation Center named The Behavioral Action Care Foundation Centre was built by a group of indigenes of the ancient town, Ogbomoso First Community Initiative otherwise known as “O 1st Group” as part of their efforts to stem the dangerous tide of drug abuse in the area.
The board Chairman of the Behavioral Action Care Foundation, a unit of the O 1ST Group, Otunba Bayo Babatunde said in a statement that the hospital was built to check the prevalence of drug usage and abuse prompted by the location of a university community in the town as well as the large presence of immigrants from Ghana, Niger, Benin, India and China among
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Monday said its operatives in Anambra State recovered 58.5 grammes of cocaine and 13.9 grammes of heroin concealed in the palace of a prominent traditional ruler in the state.
The state NDLEA Commander, Muhammadu Idris, in a statement, noted that palace guards were assisting the agency in tracking the dealer.
He said, “Investigations are ongoing to unravel how the illicit drugs were hidden in the palace and the palace security guards are helping in tracing the dealer behind the consignment.”
Also, the agency said a notorious drug trafficker, Hassan Taiwo, was arrested by operatives at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos State, with three parcels of cocaine concealed in a false bottom created in his suitcase.
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NDLEA seized N60bn worth of narcotic drugs in 6 weeks Marwa
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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.