The federal government has approved the purchase of four armoured vehicles at the cost of 580.5 million naira for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, disclosed this to State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
According to him, the approval became important, considering NDLEA’s recent success stories and the possibility of targeted attacks on its personnel.
The Council also reviewed the successes recorded by the agency between January and July 2022, under the leadership of its current chairman, Buba Marwa , who arrested over 18,940 suspects, including securing 2,904 convictions from the courts, a development that has built up the risk of its personnel being targets of reprisal attacks by affected criminal rings.
