The Chairman and Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (rtd), says the NDLEA has written a letter to the Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, to have access to conduct drugs integrity tests on politicians seeking political offices in the country. NIGERIAN TRIBUNE reports.

Marwa made the disclosure while fielding questions from newsmen at the 2022 First Quarter Best Performing Commands Awards ceremony held at the NDLEA national headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday. Information Guide Nigeria

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The NDLEA boss stated that when it is the turn of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and other parties to conduct its party primaries, the anti-drug agency would also write the parties’ national chairmen and request that operatives of NDLEA be allowed to conduct drugs integrity tests on politicians aspiring for political offices.

Marwa added that the drug test is necessary to ensure that politicians vested with important national offices don’t t use budgetary allocations to buy cocaine or Methamphetamine instead of providing needed services for the citizens. jamb results

He said: “For politicians, we have long advocated and I take the opportunity again to repeat the advocacy that when they run for public office it demands a lot of responsibility from the person and we need to be certain if he’s a person that is already a drug addict/user who will spend all the money he’s given for public service to consume cocaine and his head will not be in a stable condition to handle the affairs he has been entrusted with.

“For this reason, we have advocated and will continue to advocate that drug test be conducted for politicians; some state governments like Kano State is already doing this.

“Not just politicians, but government appointees, and I’ve just sent a letter this morning to the National Chairman of APC, who will be the first of the national working committee I wish to pay an advocacy visit on this issue.

“I recommended that drug tests be incorporated in the screening process for all those interested in running for public office; we’ll do the same to the PDP and other important parties.”

While addressing officers and men of the agency present at the event, Gen. Marwa said the ceremony “has become part and parcel of our corporate culture”.

He added: “Recognizing and rewarding hard work and excellence has always been a pragmatic way of stimulating productivity and enhancing the attainment of organisational goals; making it a tradition for the Agency is our way of enshrining meritocracy in the system.

“Statistics from the first quarter (Q1) report, indicated that our performance level has not dropped off.

“Indeed, achieving 3, 539 arrests, 677 convictions, and seizures of 65, 916 kg of drugs in three months is no mean feat.

“Little wonder our performance continually earns the Agency deserved accolades from the right quarters within the country as well as from abroad, especially from international partners and peers. While we have not yet achieved the utopia of a drug-free society, the results showed that we are getting it right.”

It was gathered from an NDLEA source that the directive came from the narcotics agency headquarters that all properties belong to former Intelligence Response Teams (IRT) should be marked.