‘Drug use, mental illness feed each other’ – NDLEA boss Marwa

The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd), has said that drug use and mental illness feed each other, warning that “if we only arrest the symptoms, we will keep missing the cause.”
In a statement, the Director of Media and Advocacy at the NDLEA headquarters in Abuja, Femi Babafemi, said Marwa made the remark on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, while chairing the fifth edition of The Conversation Conference (TCC 5.0), organised by the Intersect Consortium, led by UK-based Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Vincent Udenze, at the Nicon Luxury Hotel, Abuja.
The NDLEA boss said the event, held days after World Ment...