NDLEA proposes life jail for drug laws violators

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has proposed life imprisonment for offenders of drug laws in the amendment bill to the agency’s Act before the National Assembly.

NDLEA Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Brig.-Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa (retd.), announced this yesterday at the weekly ministerial briefing coordinated by the Presidential Media Team at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

He explained that the amended Act would eliminate the fine option for offenders.

His words, “The jail sentences we’re looking at are minimum of 15, maximum of 25 and life. Those are all in the NDLEA Act that is under revision at the National Assembly.”

“We’re working with the Prisons. There was a time – and this was information that I stumbled upon during PACIDA – that some of the barons, who had been jailed, somewhere between the courtroom and the jail, are released; they don’t serve the sentence. I came across this in PACIDA.

“But with the interaction that I had in the correctional services, right from them and some of the visitations, it was made clear that this happened. But (that was) in the past, in the distant past. Now, the correctional services are upstanding and they are doing their level best.”

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