The United States government has announced a project that will strengthen intelligence gathering and prosecution capabilities as well as forensic and chemical analysis capacity of Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
The project will be implemented by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Nigeria.
The latest support from the U.S. Department of States Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) comes on the heels of an award of N500 million grant to fund selected projects in the agency by the Abdul Samad Rabiu Initiative (ASR Africa).
The official letter announcing the U.S. project grant to the NDLEA, followed requests by the chairman/chief executive officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd), during a series of meetings with top U.S. officials both in Abuja and in Washington DC.
According to NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, aside from the support for the forensic and chemical analysis capacity of the agency, the U.S. government also said the project will further support NDLEA efforts to conduct intelligence-led investigations through diverse resources as well as legal books and an e-library for prosecution and other legal needs of the agency.
The letter reads in part: “We appreciate our strong and continued working relationship and believe this project will be an important step in advancing our shared goal of a united, peaceful, and stable Nigeria.
“Through all these, the NDLEA will be better equipped to prosecute cases with reliable evidence, using improved collection, handling, and custodial procedures”.
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