President Muhammadu Buhari, has congratulated the Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA, Buba Marwa on the recent very successful operation of the Agency leading to the smashing of an international drug syndicate and recovery of 1,855kilograms of cocaine.
Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity, in a release on Monday in Abuja, said in a telephone call to the Chairman of the anti-narcotics agency from New York where he is attending the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly UNGA 77, President Buhari said that the news of the recovery gladdens his heart.
“I deeply appreciate the work that you have put into the eradication of the drug menace. It gladdens my heart as I continue to follow the successes achieved under your leadership.
“You have demonstrated over and again that choosing you to lead this fight against wicked merchants of death whose sole aim is to endanger and truncate the future of our youth is a very good choice. Please keep up the good work.”
At a meeting later with members of his delegation, the President said, “Buba Marwa is doing well. Two tonnes of cocaine, that’s a haul.”
The NDLEA had announced the “highest cocaine seizure” worth over 278 million dollars and arrest of drug barons including a foreigner in a major operation lasting two days across different locations in Lagos.
Recall that the said it has seized 1.8tons 1,855 kilograms of cocaine worth more than Two Hundred and Seventy Eight Million Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars $278, 250,000 equivalent of about One Hundred and Ninety Four Billion, Seven Hundred and Seventy Five Million N194, 775,000,000 Naira in street value, stored in 10 travel bags and 13 drums.
According to the Director, Media & Advocacy of the Agency, Femi Babafemi on Monday in Abuja, he said in what appears to be the biggest singular cocaine seizure in the history of Nigeria’s premier anti-narcotic agency, operatives of the Agency, busted a major warehouse in a secluded estate in Ikorodu area of Lagos .
