NDLEA wants strict jail terms, not fine options for drug traffickers – Marwa

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has said it is not comfy with options of fines being accorded cause traffickers and their agents successful the country.

The bureau said it wants strict imprisonment that would deter others from the heinous crimes.

The anti-narcotics outfit explained that acquisition has shown that options of fines successful spot of outright imprisonment has not deterred cause traffickers, hence the emergence successful the maltreatment of illicit substances successful the country.

Chairman of the NDLEA, Brigadier General Buba Marwa (rtd) who made this known connected Tuesday successful Abuja pleaded with the Chief Judge and judges of the Federal High Court to ever see strict imprisonment for cause offenders who bash not merit mercy of the law.

He spoke astatine the unveiling of National Minimum Standards connected the Implementation of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015 and the Administration of Criminal Justice Laws of the 36 states.

According to Marwa, Nigeria presently has implicit 10 cardinal cannabis users, a improvement helium described arsenic precise worrisome.

In the past 5 years, helium said the bureau made a seizure of astir 15 cardinal kilograms of assorted illicit substances retired of which betwixt 70 to 75 percent was cannabis.

The worrisome situation, helium said, forced NDLEA nether his idiosyncratic intervention, to conscionable cannabis growers particularly successful Ondo State to enlighten them to halt increasing Indian ...