The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has said it is aggressively targeting the financial assets of drug trafficking networks, moving beyond arrests to dismantle the economic foundations of drug cartels in Nigeria.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brigadier General Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd), disclosed this at a joint press briefing with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime at the agency’s headquarters in Abuja on Friday, to announce weeklong activities marking the 2026 World Drug Day.
“We are not just arresting traffickers; we are liquidating their financial empires,”Marwa who was represented at the briefing by the agency’s Secretary, Shadrach Haruna said.
He said the agency was deploying civil action in rem instruments to target and forfeit assets suspected to be proceeds of drug crimes to the Federal Government.
“Through the civil action in rem instrumentalities, assets reasonably suspected to be proceeds of drug crimes are aggressively targeted and forfeited to the Federal Government, effectively cutting off the lifeblood of these criminal networks,” he said.
