Drug war: NDLEA to use Immigration database to track barons – Marwa

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has said it will use the Nigeria Immigration Service’s (NIS) huge database to track drug barons and traffickers anywhere in the world.

The Chairman/Chief Executive of the agency, Brig-Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), said this on Monday in Abuja during a courtesy visit to the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammed Babandede.

After a tour of the NIS database facility, Marwa commended Babandede for deploying modern technology and state of the art equipment to keep huge data for the use of the nation’s intelligence and law enforcement community.

“No doubt, the Nigeria Immigration Service database will be of immense use to us in NDLEA in our efforts to track drug barons and traffickers wherever they may be hiding across the world and we’ll take advantage of the new technology deployed by the NIS now that the NDLEA is on top of its game,” Marwa said in a statement by the NDLEA spokesman, Mr. Femi Babafemi.

He commended the NIS Comptroller General for introducing drug integrity test to the Service, adding that the Agency will continue to push for other government agencies and political office seekers among others to adopt the same.

Responding, the NIS boss commended Marwa for his achievements so far as the helmsman of the NDLEA.

“We have no doubt that you will excel like you have done in previous national assignments and we are ready to work with you. On the drug integrity test, we will like the NDLEA positioned to conduct drug test for the military and other law enforcement agencies,” Babandede said.

He said that it is not enough to send those caught with drugs to jail, membership of any drug cartel must equally be regarded and treated with similar measure.