Posted by Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (retired), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, said that the organization had made 18,940 arrests in the previous two years.
Marwa, who has been in office since January 2021, reviewed his nearly two years in head of the NDLEA while speaking in Yola, the capital of Adamawa State, and added that 3,324 of the suspects who had been apprehended had been imprisoned.
In addition to receiving an honorary award at the ceremony, Marwa revealed that 5.4 million kg of illegal substances were collected during the review period.
He said, “I would like to encourage to parents to step up as parents and play the correct role of parenting for our children,” and announced that by the end of the year, the agency will be selling affordable drug testing kits that worried parents could use to check their kids.
He emphasized the need for it so that parents of kids who have drug use issues can swiftly get assistance.
On Wednesday in Yola, Marwa spoke after receiving an award for excellence from the Adamawa Honors Society.
In accepting the prize, Marwa stated that drug misuse is common among youths and that it encourages criminal activity.
The NDLEA has gone to make seizures, arrests, and [followed] due legal processes to limit access and availability of narcotics across the length and breadth of the country, he added. “The Boko Haram militants, terrorists, bandits, kidnappers; all of these criminals depend on drugs,” he said.