President Tinubu Reappoints Mohammed Buba Marwa as NDLEA Chairman
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has extended the appointment of Brigadier-General Mohammed Buba Marwa (retired) as the Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for another five-year term.
Marwa was first appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari in January 2021, after serving as the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Drug Abuse from 2018 to December 2020.
The reappointment means the Adamawa-born former military officer will continue leading the NDLEA until 2031.
Marwa, a former military governor of Lagos and Borno States, is a graduate of the Nigerian Military School and the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA).
Since his commissioning as a Second Lieutenant in 1973, Marwa has served as Brigade Major of the 23 Armored Brigade, Aide-de-Camp (ADC) to the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Theophilus Danjuma, and Academic Registrar of the Nigerian Defence Academy. He also served as Deputy Defence Adviser at the Nigerian Embassy in Washington, D.C., and later as Defence Adviser to Nigeria’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations.
He holds two postgraduate degrees: a Master of Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh (1983–1985) and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University (1985–1986).
His time at the NDLEA has been notable for numerous drug busts, including the arrests of 73,000 drug mules and barons, and seizures exceeding 15 million kilograms of various hard drugs.
Under his leadership, the agency has also launched nationwide campaigns to combat drug abuse.
“Your reappointment is a vote of confidence in your diligent efforts to rid our country of the menace of drug trafficking and drug abuse. I urge you not to relent in tracking the merchants of hard drugs, out to destroy our people, especially the young ones,” President Tinubu states.
