{"id":77719,"date":"2025-10-29T16:47:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77719"},"modified":"2025-10-29T16:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:47:55","slug":"marwa-vows-crackdown-on-drug-parties-warns-against-culture-of-impunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/29\/marwa-vows-crackdown-on-drug-parties-warns-against-culture-of-impunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Marwa Vows Crackdown on Drug Parties, Warns Against Culture of Impunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chairman and Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd.), has vowed to clamp down on the rising trend of drug-themed parties across Nigeria, warning that the agency will not tolerate impunity in drug-related activities.<\/p>\n<p>Marwa gave the warning after the NDLEA halted a nightclub event in Lagos that openly promoted drug use.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossession or use of drugs in premises, hotels, or nightclubs is illegal. We will not allow a culture of impunity to take root,\u201d he said, adding that the club involved faces prosecution and possible property forfeiture.<\/p>\n<p>He made the remarks during the decoration of newly promoted senior officers and presentation of awards at the NDLEA headquarters, where he highlighted the agency\u2019s recent achievements, 45,853 arrests, 8.5 million kilograms of drugs seized, and 9,263 convictions in the last 30 months.<\/p>\n<p>Marwa commended officers for their courage and professionalism and urged property owners, club operators, and hoteliers to avoid aiding or abetting drug-related crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; Chairman and Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd.), has vowed to clamp down on the rising trend of drug-themed parties across Nigeria, warning that the agency will not tolerate impunity in drug-related activities. Marwa gave the warning after the NDLEA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77721,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77719\/revisions\/77721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}