President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has renewed the appointment of Brigadier-General Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd) as the Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA for another five-year term.
Marwa’s reappointment was announced on Friday in a statement by the President’s media aide, Bayo Onanuga.
Recalls that Marwa was first appointed by former president, late Muhammadu Buhari in January 2021.
Prior to his appointment by Buhari, Marwa was the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Drug Abuse from 2018 to December 2020.
According to Onanuga, the reappointment means the Adamawa-born former military officer will remain at the helm of the NDLEA until 2031.
Marwa, a former military governor of Lagos and Borno States, is a graduate of the Nigerian Military School and the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA.
“Your reappointment is a vote of confidence in your onerous efforts to rid our country of the menace of drug trafficking and drug abuse. I urge you not to relent in tracking the merchants of hard drugs, out to destroy our people, especially the young ones”, President Tinubu was
