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Tinubu to lead war on drug trafficking at Africa NDLEA heads meeting

DailyblastBy DailyblastSeptember 19, 2023004 Mins Read
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President Bola Tinubu, alongside delegates of 54 African countries, is set to declare war on on global drug trafficking scourge at the forthcoming 31st meeting of Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, Africa, in Abuja on Tuesday, September 26, 2023.

Top on the agenda will be discussions and collaborations on alternative development to cannabis cultivation, trends and partnerships over assets forfeiture, cryptocurrency and money laundering involving drug cartels among others.

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While President Tinubu is expected to deliver the keynote address and also declare the conference open as the special guest of honour, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, and some invited ministers as well as heads of relevant parastatals and agencies will also be at the opening ceremony.

This was disclosed in Abuja on Tuesday, September 19, 2023, at a joint press briefing by the Secretary to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Shadrach Haruna and the Country Representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Oliver Stolpe.

Haruna, who represented the Chairman of the NDLEA, Brigadier General Buba Marwa (retd.), at the briefing, said the 31st meeting of the HONLAF, a subsidiary body of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs, is to enable heads of drug law enforcement agencies in Africa to discuss and develop strategies to combat drug trafficking and abuse in the region.

Haruna said, “The HONLAF meeting is an annual event. The last one was held in Nairobi, Kenya, where Nigeria was unanimously elected as the host of the 31st edition, which will take place from Tuesday, September 26 to Friday, September 29, 2023, in Abuja.

“This annual HONLAF meeting features a line-up of activities that include technical meetings, paper presentations, deliberations on reports and trends, workshops, and bilateral talks among member nations. It is a platform for brokering collaborations in the areas of shared intelligence, joint training, and joint operations against international drug cartels in the African region.

“This year, Nigeria has the honour of being the chair and host of the meeting. So, it means delegates from 53 other African countries will converge in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Monday, and for the rest of the week, they will be guests of NDLEA and the Federal Government of Nigeria. Aside from delegates from African countries, there will be representatives from observer bodies and other non-African countries who will be attending to watch the proceedings.”

The conference, which will be held between Tuesday, September 26 and Friday, September 29, will also provide opportunities for bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the main agenda.

“Among other positive outlooks, Nigeria hosting the 31st HONLAF is an indication of the trust in the leadership quality of NDLEA among its peers on the continent. At the last HONLAF meeting in Nairobi, Nigeria seized the momentum to broker bilateral cooperation with several countries to form a strong regional defence against transnational illicit drug organisations trying to establish bases in our countries. Such bilateral relationships have been crucial to NDLEA’s interdiction exercises in the past year”, Haruna noted.

In his remark at the briefing, Dr. Oliver Stolpe said the HONLAF meeting will also focus on, “regional and national cooperation to reduce illicit production and cultivation of illicit drugs, something that has been observed, thanks to the operational success of NDLEA over the years in Nigeria not only for the destruction of cannabis farms but also the manufacturing of other drugs like methamphetamine.

“There will also be a discussion on alternative development, an approach promoted by many countries; financial investigation in drug trafficking cases and the role of cryptocurrency in drug trafficking cases, and money laundering. It’s safe to say NDLEA has made great strides to confiscate the money and proceeds of drug crime. We’ll also look at how to follow the money and seize the immense riches accumulated in the drug trade,”

He added that the opening ceremony of the HONLAF meeting will equally afford UNODC and the National Institute of Security Studies to present a report on organized crime trends that constitute a threat to Nigeria.

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