NDLEA boss Buba Marwa says politicians vying for office should be subjected to drug tests

NATIONAL Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) chairman Retired Brigadier Buba Marwa has suggested that all candidates vying for elective office in Nigeria should subjected to a drugs test prior to elections.

Brigadier Marwa, who was once a presidential aspirant himself, has written top the chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) Senator Abdullahi Adamu, suggesting that a drugs test be part of the electoral process. Next year, Nigeria goes to the polls and in the run-up the elections, party primaries are currently taking place.

In his letter, Brigadier Marwa requested that NDLEA officials be given access to conduct drugs integrity tests for politicians seeking political offices in the country. He  said that when it is the turn of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and other parties to conduct their primaries, he would also write the national chairman and request that NDLEA operatives be allowed to conduct drugs integrity tests on politicians aspiring for offices.

Brigadier Marwa,  who was speaking during the first quarter award ceremony of the agency in Abuja explained that the drugs test is necessary to ensure that politicians vested with important national offices do not used budgetary allocations to go and buy cocaine. He added that others may spend state funds on Methamphetamine instead of providing needed services for the masses.