Nigeria: NDLEA Makes Case for Stricter Border Control

20 March 2010

Maiduguri — There is need to patrol and put the nation's border towns on surveillance especially as the electioneering period is approaching to check the illicit trafficking of drugs and its subsequent abuse by youths in the country, the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has said

Speaking in Maiduguri , the Borno State Commander of the NDLEA, Dr. Wale Ige said the growing rate of drugs moving to and from the country through her borders with neighbouring countries should be a source of worries to everyone especially as the elections approach.

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