NDLEA boss cautions tricycles owners against transporting illicit drugs

NDLEA boss cautions tricycles owners against transporting illicit drugs

By Matthew Eloyi

Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brigadier General Buba Marwa (Retd) has cautioned tricycle owners, popularly known as Keke Marwa, to desist from transporting illicit drugs.

He warned that anyone caught transporting drug traffickers or illicit substances in any part of the country would lose his/her investment.

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Marwa issued the warning at the weekend when the chairmen of Tricycle Owners Association of Nigeria (TOAN) in all the 36 States and the FCT represented by seven zonal chairmen of the body visited him in Abuja to seek collaboration between the NDLEA and the association in the fight against drug abuse and illicit drug trafficking.

In his words, “You and millions of your members have all invested hundreds of millions to buy these tricycles but let me urge and warn that many of them may lose their investments if they are caught using the tricycles to promote criminalities by using them to convey drugs and drug traffickers.

Please urge your members who may be doing this to desist because the long arms of the NDLEA will soon catch them and they will only have themselves to blame.”

Marwa, however, expressed the readiness of the NDLEA to partner with the association as a platform to educate their members and passengers on the dangers of illicit drugs as well as in the area of intelligence gathering.

In his remarks, leader of the delegation, Comrade Aliyu Shuaibu expressed appreciation to Marwa for granting them audience despite his busy schedule.