The NDLEA Chairman, retired Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa said this when Gov. Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau visited him on Thursday in Abuja.
Marwa said that the seizures also lead to the arrest of 1,720 suspects.
He said the agency also secured 156 convictions while the trial of others were ongoing.
Mares commended the governor for his commitment to ensuring peace, security of lives and property on the Plateau.
He urged the governor to support with a standard rehabilitation centre, activate drug control committees at the state, local government and community levels to further strengthen the Agency’s drug demand reduction efforts.
This, he said would be in addition to adopting drug testing policy in schools, homes and communities across the state.
Speaking earlier, Mutfwang commended Marwa’s leadership skills in the turn around and performance of NDLEA since he assumed the chairmanship of the Agency in 2021.
He said “we’ve followed keenly your performance and we can say that since your coming on board, NDLEA has gone about its functions with more vigour, with more determination.
“And I know that quite a lot of the people who profit from trading illicit drugs have not found it easy since your coming on board,”
On partnership, the governor said “for us on the Plateau, we’ve come because we are genuinely concerned about the impact that substance abuse and trading in illegal drugs is doing in our state and we want to seek better ways of collaboration.
“We continue to look for ways and means of trying to reduce the influence of substance abuse in our society.
“And one thing that is very critical, while we have paid a lot of attention to the demand side, to the user, we need to look again at the supply side.
“On our part as a state, we are willing to be able to collaborate more with you and make sure that we reduce this menace to the barest minimum. And so, we’ve come today just to reinvigorate that cooperation.
“So far, we have enjoyed the cooperation of your staff in our state and we want to continue to do more, share information, share intelligence and see how we can collaborate,”he affirmed.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Plateau state governor and the NDLEA Chairman agreed to strengthen collaboration between the state government and the NDLEA with a view to curbing the scourge of substance abuse and illicit drug trafficking in the state.
They expressed their preparedness for the renewed partnership in their remarks respectively.
Fagbemi disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja.
He said that he noticed that the police have arraigned those arrested in connection with the endbadgovernance violent protest in court for various offences, including treason.
He said that he is equally aware that the court has remanded the defendants in detention centres and adjourned the case to January.
“It is not within my power to vary the order of the court remanding the defendants in detention centres and adjourning the case to January.
“But there are some issues my office will need to look into regarding the matter to enable me take an informed decision.
“I have directed the Nigeria Police to transfer the case file to my office and hand over same to the Director of Public Prosecution of the Federation (DPPF) tomorrow, Saturday 2nd November, 2024.
“I have further directed the DPPF to immediately put machinery in motion for consideration of the court to bring the adjournment date forward to an earlier date,” he said.
JUST IN: : Drama As Bobrisky Claimed To Be Arrested And Injured By EFCC [VIDEO]
JUST IN: : Drama As Bobrisky Claimed To Be Arrested And Injured By EFCC [VIDEO]—-Controversial Nigerian crossdresser Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky just claimed that he has been arrested and injured by EFCC while jetting to Amsterdam.
TCN earlier reported that he was apprehended at the Lagos airport while attempting to board a KLM flight to Amsterdam just days after being granted bail by the Nigerian Police.
The KLM flight which he boarded was halted by the Nigerian Authorities and Idris Okuneye was escorted out of the flight and carried by the immigration officer
Bobrisky revealed this incident on his Instagram story, whole sharing a brief video in which he claimed to be injured.
Making this ugly incident known, Bobrisky wrote,
“Nigerians help me, EFCC just arrested me. I’m badly injured,”.
This latest arrest comes barely few weeks after he was arrested at the Benin Republic Immigration Service at the popular Seme border during passport checks.
It was learnt that the embattled crossdresser was trying to leave Nigerian unnoticed when he was arrested.