Abuja, Nov. 14, 2025 – President Bola Tinubu has reappointed Retired Gen. Buba Marwa as Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for another five-year term.
This was disclosed by a statement from the State House on Friday.
He was first appointed to the office by President Mohammadu Buhari in January 2021.
In the statement, the president heighted many decades of Marwa’s achievements which included decades of drug busts and the arrests of 73,000 drug mules and barons and seizures of over 15 million kilogrammes of various hard drugs.
He described his re-appointment as a vote of confidence in his onerous efforts to rid our country of the menace of drug trafficking and drug abuse.
“I urge you not to relent in tracking the merchants of hard drugs, out to destroy our people, especially the young ones.,” Tinubu said.
Marwa had earlier served as the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Drug Abuse from 2018 to December 2020, prior to his first appointment as NDLEA boss.
He was also a former military administrator (governor) of Lagos and Borno states.
