Marwa, NDLEA Directors Undergo Unplanned ‘Integrity Drug Test’

• impromptu test necessary to show that the agency is leading by example – NDLEA chairman

As part of its drive to rid the agency of drug use and also earn the moral justification to direct its workers and citizens to undergo drug test, Buba Marwa, chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), and other top officials of the agency have undergone an “impromptu drug integrity test”.

The unplanned test was conducted by a team of doctors, led by Vincent Udenze, from medical director of Synapse Services.

The doctors carried out the test at the agency’s headquarters in Abuja, on Monday.

Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesman, made the disclosure in a statement on Monday.

He disclosed that the officials were subjected to the test upon resumption of work on Monday.

The gates of the headquarters were said to have been closed during the exercise, while everyone was asked to converge in clutches at the conference hall for the test.

Babafemi noted that the test results released so far by the medical team showed that Marwa; Shadrack Haruna, NDLEA secretary, and other directors at the agency’s headquarters were negative.

Babafemi said the agency can’t impose drug test on people while it’s not subjected itself to same.

“We cannot be asking others to undergo drug tests without submitting ourselves for the same. Coming out clean and negative gives us the moral authority to conduct the test on others,” he said.

“The essence of also taking everyone by surprise and inviting external medical personnel to conduct the test is to further strengthen the validity of the exercise.”

The exercise comes months after Marwa proposed that students of tertiary institutions, corps members, workers, security agencies, and government appointees undergo drug tests.

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