The United States government has announced a project that will strengthen the forensic and chemical analysis capacity of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), as well as its intelligence gathering and prosecution capabilities.
NDLEA spokesperson, Mr Femi Babafemi, said 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).
According to an official letter announcing the U.S. project grant to the NDLEA, the award 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.
The letter noted that the project will be implemented by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Nigeria.
