Buba Marwa, chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement
Agency (NDLEA), and other top officials of the agency have undergone an
“impromptu drug integrity test”.
A team of doctors, led by Vincent Udenze, medical director
of Synapse Services, were at the agency’s headquarters in Abuja, on Monday to
conduct the drug test.
According to a statement by Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesman,
the officials were subjected to the test upon resumption of work on Monday.
The gates of the headquarters were said to have been shut
during the exercise, while everyone was asked to gather in batches at the
conference hall for the test.
Babafemi noted that the test results released so far by the
medical team showed that Marwa; Shadrack Haruna, NDLEA secretary, and other
directors at the agency’s headquarters were negative.
Speaking before the exercise started, the NDLEA chairman
said the impromptu test was necessary to show that the agency is leading by
example.
“We cannot be asking others to undergo drug tests without
submitting ourselves for the same. Coming out clean and negative gives us the
moral authority to conduct the test on others,” he said.
“The essence of also taking everyone by surprise and
inviting external medical personnel to conduct the test is to further
strengthen the validity of the exercise.”
The exercise comes months after Marwa proposed that students
of tertiary institutions, corps members, workers, security agencies, and
government appointees undergo drug tests.
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