Brigadier-General Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd) has been reappointed by President Bola Tinubu to a five-year term as Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
According to reports, Bayo Onanuga, President Bola Tinubu’s Special Advisor on Information and Strategy, announced the appointment’s renewal in a statement released on Friday.
According to Tinubu, the reappointment means that the former military officer, who was born in Adamawa, will continue to lead the NDLEA until 2031.
The president claims that Marwa’s first term in the NDLEA has been notable for numerous drug busts, including the seizure of more over 15 million kg of various hard substances and the arrest of 73,000 drug mules and barons.
Tinubu added that the NDLEA has started national efforts to combat drug usage under Marwa’s direction.
“Your reappointment is a vote of confidence in your onerous efforts to rid our country of the menace of drug trafficking and drug abuse,” he declared. I implore you to continue pursuing the hard drug dealers who are seeking to ruin our people, particularly the youth.
“Marwa was first appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari in January 2021, following his tenure as Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Drug Abuse from 2018 to December 2020,” the statement continued.
“Marwa, a former military governor of Lagos and Borno States, holds degrees from both the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) and the Nigerian Military School.
Following his commission as a second lieutenant in 1973, Marwa held positions as academic registrar of the Nigerian Defence Academy, brigade major of the 23 Armoured Brigade, and Aide-de-Camp (ADC) to Lieutenant-General Theophilus Danjuma, Chief of Army Staff. In addition, he was the Deputy Defense Advisor at the Nigerian Embassy in Washington, DC, and subsequently the Defense Advisor at the Nigerian Permanent Mission to the United Nations.
“He has two postgraduate degrees: a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University (1985–86) and a Master of Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh (1983–85).”
