President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the reappointment of Brigadier General Mohamed Buba Marwa (rtd.) as Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for an additional five-year tenure.
The reappointment, confirmed in a State House statement on Friday, extends Mr. Marwa’s leadership of the anti-narcotics agency until 2031. He was first appointed by former President Muhammadu Buhari in January 2021.
Before assuming office at the NDLEA, Mr. Marwa served as Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Drug Abuse between 2018 and December 2020. His public service career also includes his tenure as Military Administrator of Lagos and Borno states.
A graduate of the Nigerian Military School and the Nigerian Defence Academy, Mr. Marwa was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in 1973. Over the course of his military career, he served in several strategic positions, including Brigade Major of the 23 Armoured Brigade, Aide-de-Camp to then Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Theophilus Danjuma, and Academic Registrar of the NDA.
He also held diplomatic defence roles, serving 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.
The Presidency noted that the NDLEA has recorded unprecedented progress under Mr. Marwa’s leadership. According to the statement, the agency has conducted numerous high-profile drug busts, arrested over 73,000 drug traffickers, and seized more than 15 million kilogrammes of illicit drugs since 2021.
President Tinubu commended Mr. Marwa for his dedication, describing his reappointment as “a vote of confidence in your onerous 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 who seek to destroy our people, especially the young ones,” the President added.
