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NDLEA signs MoU with Customs to push drug trafficking war
The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has signed a new Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on Tuesday, on how to push the anti-drug trafficking war.
The Chairman of NDLEA, Mohamed Buba Marwa, and Hameed Ali, the NCS Comptroller-General, signed the MoU in Abuja.
Marwa described the MoU as a benchmark for information and intelligence-sharing between the two organisations.
He said it is also a platform for sharing operational and administrative experiences with a view to adopting best practices that work.
He emphasized, “With this united front, there can only be one assurance: that the criminal elements in our society will definitely be the losers and I assure you that they’ll certainly lose big as we come for them to put them where they rightly belong and cripple their crime syndicates.”
Ali, on his part, opined that the MoU was a signal to Nigeria and her international partners that the NCS and the NDLEA were committed to protecting Nigerian borders from illicit drugs.
He stated that they have all along been doing this, finding drugs in the borders, thanking God that the sole responsibility has been removed from them, and had some relief.
He said when they arrest the suspects, they hand them over to the NDLEA, where they will be investigated and punished accordingly.
He added that the coming of Marwa has given them confidence that the suspects would be handled accordingly.
He assured of NCS’s commitment to the implementation of the MoU with NDLEA.
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