Nigeria has been elected to host the next conference of Heads of Drug Law Enforcement Agencies Africa, HONLEA, in 2023.
This was the unanimous decision of the regional network at the close of its 2022 annual meeting in Nairobi, Kenya .
The move by other heads of anti-narcotics agencies in Africa to have Nigeria host the 2023 conference followed the country’s good relationship with others on the continent and National Drug Law Enforcement Agency’s ( NDLEA) exemplary performance in the renewed fight against substance abuse and illicit drug trafficking.
In the course of the weeklong conference, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency,Retired Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa who led the Nigerian delegation at the bilateral meetings emphasized the need to build new and strengthen existing partnerships among anti-narcotics agencies at the sub-regional and regional levels to make trafficking of illicit drugs and movement of drug lords difficult on the African continent.
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