 And the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency wants stiffer penalties for drug trafficking. The NDLEA wants the removal of the option of fines for drug offenders. The agency's chairman Brigadier General Buber Marwa said it had worrisome that some of the officers lose their lives in the cause of battling with drug traffickers while in the end. And some of these offenders went taking to court to just find and later returned to the same business. Marwa explained that the drug problem in Nigeria is massive, adding that an aggressive reduction in drug supply should be embarked on. According to him, the National Drug Use Survey of 2018 indicated that 14.3 million Nigerians representing 14.4% of the country's population used psychoactive substances aside from alcohol.