Senate President Lawan Reveals Those Sponsoring Terrorism

Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, on Thursday, has accused drug barons of funding insurgent groups to cause insecurity in the country.

He stated this when the Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brigadier-General Buba Marwa (Rtd), paid a visit to his office on Thursday at the National Assembly, Abuja.

Lawan blamed the lingering insecurity in Nigeria on the funding activities of these drug lords.

The nation’s number three citizen said such drug barons, who engage in trafficking heroin, cannabis and cocaine, have made Nigeria a major transit route for plying the illicit trade, which he added, was responsible for the rise in criminality in the country.

Lawan urged the leadership of the NDLEA to restructure the agency so as to further empower it to rise to the occasion of clamping down on the criminal activities of drug traffickers operating in the country.

“Let me say that Nigeria, as a country, is in one way or the other a transit route for drugs,” he said.

“Drug peddlers pass their drugs through Nigeria – cannabis, heroin and possibly even cocaine.

“We believe that this has to stop because the proceeds of such activities fund terrorism, they fund banditry, you wonder how the bandits have RPGs and these massive arms that they have.

“Definitely, these are some acquisition provided by some barons, not the bandits themselves.”