‘You’ll lose your investments if you carry drug traffickers’ – NDLEA chairman warns tricycle owners

Chairman of the Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has warned tricycle house owners, popularly often known as Keke Marwa, that they are going to lose their investments if they’re caught utilizing the favored technique of transportation to maneuver drug traffickers or illicit substances in any a part of the nation.

Marwa issued the warning on the weekend when all of the 36 states chairmen together with the FCT of Tricycle House owners Affiliation of Nigeria, TOAN, represented by seven zonal chairmen of the physique, paid him a go to in Abuja to hunt partnership between the NDLEA and the affiliation within the battle in opposition to drug abuse and illicit drug trafficking.

Marwa mentioned “you and tens of millions of your members have all invested lots of of millions to purchase these tricycles however let me urge and warn that a lot of them could lose their investments if they’re caught utilizing the tricycles to advertise criminalities by utilizing them to convey medicine and drug traffickers. Please urge your members who could also be doing this to desist as a result of the lengthy arms of the NDLEA will quickly catch them and they’re going to solely have themselves in charge.”

The NDLEA chairman nonetheless expressed the readiness of the Company to accomplice with the affiliation as a platform to teach their members and passengers on the hazards of illicit medicine in addition to within the space of intelligence gathering.