 The chairman of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA Bubba Marua, has promised to go tougher on anti-drug war in 2023. Marua stated this in YOLA during an honours bestowed on him by Adamawa Honours Society in recognition of his outstanding service to the nation. He disclosed that no fewer than 18,940 suspects were arrested for drug-related offences in the last two years. He explained the NDLEA under his watch in 2022, secured 3,324 convictions, seized 5.4 kilograms of different controlled drugs, narcotic substances, and rehabilitated 3,326 drug abusers in the year under review. The 2023 efforts are going to be redoubled and very important for this to be clear, that the cartels were given them a strong warning to quit while they can, because it is clear, isn't it, based on evidence that you can't get away from us, we will always reach you. We are also looking at a situation of crop substitution. This is one of the things I want to focus on next year, crop substitution, if we can persuade those cannabis growers to shift to other cash crops. That is going to help us tremendously. It's going to be a training here also, we are going to do a lot of training to up the ante of professionalism. We are going to do more recruitment so that we can get more officers down to our various communities. I do not have the statistics, but from what the professor presented here, the statistics actually dropped from 14 percent of Nigerians on drugs down to about 8 percent, and that is a huge success. So it goes along the territory of what was in everything it does. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel, and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.