Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen Buba Marwa, has insisted that politicians seeking public offices and students seeking admission into higher institutions must undergo drug integrity tests.
Marwa made this known on Tuesday in Abuja while delivering a paper on ‘Drug abuse and national security challenge: way forward’, as the guest speaker at the 5th anniversary lecture of presidential diary magazine.
The statement titled ‘Why politicians, students, must undergo drug test – Marwa’ was released by the NDLEA Director of Publicity and Media, Femi Babalola.
The Chairman pointed emphasised why politicians in the forthcoming elections must undergo drug tests.
According to Marwa, the drug test is to ensure that these politicians do not hold public officers “under the influence of drugs.”
The statement read in part; “As elections come up in the states and across the country, there is the need for the people to entrust the management of their treasury and their wellbeing in the hands of politicians that have clear minds because no public office holder under the influence of drugs can think straight.
“He said same thing applies to students who are seeking admission into higher institutions.
“He said because of the evidence-based strong nexus between drug abuse and security challenges across the country, concerted efforts must be made towards tackling the drug scourge headlong.
In this regard, we are doing our best in our area of responsibility in the NDLEA.”
