The Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. General Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), yesterday revealed that the agency he heads has seized drugs valued at ₦90 billion in the last four months.
The NDLEA boss made this disclosure at a ceremony to give commendation letters to 45 outstanding officers and men as well as the best performing commands award for the months of March and April 2021.
He said the achievement of the NDLEA so far was the sum total of the efforts of all the officers and men across the various commands in the 36 states and the FCT as well as the special commands.
‘That is to say, the credit goes to every one of us here and in our various commands. We did not bring in a new set of operatives to implement our new action plan. We are still the same officers and men of the NDLEA. We are breaking these new grounds, because of our collective resolve and our rededication to service.
‘Were it not for you, the achievements of the past four months wouldn’t have been possible. We wouldn’t have been able to arrest 2,175 drug traffickers, neither would the seizure of 2,050,766.33 kilograms of assorted illicit drugs have been possible if you had chosen to do just the minimal work across your various commands.
‘If our approach has been one of business as usual, we would not have been able to seize drug and cash valued at over ₦90 billion in just four months. Think of what a fraction of that could have done to the various criminalities in Nigeria,’ he added.
According to Marwa, the filing of about 2,100 drug cases in court with over 500 convictions was made possible by the collective efforts of officers and men who decided to go the extra mile.
AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK
