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Birthdays are milestones in the journey of life, but for those entrusted with the service of a nation, they are also moments to celebrate the footprints they have left along the way. Today, I celebrate one such journey—that of an accomplished public servant, steadfast patriot and Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Kashim Shettima.

Your Excellency, your journey through public service—from Commissioner to Governor, Senator and now Vice President—has been distinguished by courage in adversity, intellectual depth, loyalty to country and an abiding conviction in the promise of Nigeria.

You governed Borno State at one of the most difficult periods in its history, when terror tested the resilience of its people and challenged the authority of the Nigerian state. Yet you remained at your duty post, providing leadership in the face of danger and demonstrating that adversity must never be permitted to extinguish hope.

Today, as Vice President, you bring that same resilience, experience and patriotic commitment to the service of our nation. Your partnership with His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, in advancing the Renewed Hope Agenda demonstrates the importance of unity of purpose at the highest levels of government as we confront the challenges of the present and lay the foundations for a more prosperous future.

On this special day, I celebrate not merely the addition of another year to your life, but the years you have invested in the service of our fatherland.

On behalf of my family, my constituents and the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I wish you many more years of good health, wisdom, strength and fulfilment.

May Almighty God continue to guide you, strengthen you and grant you the grace to serve our nation with distinction.

And may the years ahead bring us ever closer to the Nigeria for which generations have hoped and laboured—a nation at peace with itself, confident in its diversity, prosperous in its economy and respected among the nations of the world.

Happy Birthday, Mr Vice President.
May God bless you, and may God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

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. As Chief Judge Tsoho commends Marwa, says collaboration between FHC and NDLEA, other law enforcement agencies will put Nigeria in proper spotlight globally
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The Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), has charged investigators and prosecutors of the Agency to intensify efforts at tracing, seizing and recovering the proceeds and instrumentalities of narcotics trafficking, insisting that the war against drug cartels can no longer be won by arrests and seizures alone.

Marwa gave the charge on Wednesday 2nd September 2026 while declaring open an Advanced Capacity Building Programme on Financial Investigations, Asset Tracing, Forfeiture, Recovery and Management of the Proceeds and Instrumentalities of Narcotics Trafficking and Related Organised Crime, organised by the Agency in Abuja.

In his welcome remarks, the NDLEA boss noted that the depth of participation at the programme reflects a shared commitment to the understanding that drug trafficking is fundamentally an economic enterprise, sustained by financiers, facilitators, money launderers and professional enablers operating behind every drug shipment.

“If we arrest the courier but leave the financier untouched, seize the drugs but allow the proceeds to remain with the criminal enterprise, or secure a conviction without recovering the illicit wealth, we have addressed only part of the problem”, he stated.

He observed that criminal organisations are increasingly exploiting technology, cryptocurrencies, complex corporate structures and legitimate businesses to conceal the ownership and origin of illicit wealth, stressing that the Agency’s response must evolve with equal sophistication. According to him, NDLEA investigators and prosecutors must be equipped to analyse complex transactions, trace assets across borders, establish beneficial ownership, exploit digital evidence and build financial cases capable of supporting forfeiture and recovery.

Marwa disclosed that the NDLEA’s next imperative, having made significant progress in seizing narcotics and prosecuting traffickers, is to dismantle the economic foundations of the drug trade and make narcotics trafficking a high-risk, low-profit enterprise.

“The sophistication of organised crime demands a corresponding sophistication in our response. We must move from crime detection to crime disruption; from arresting offenders to dismantling criminal enterprises; and from confiscating drugs to depriving traffickers of the wealth that motivates and sustains their activities. The drug trafficking ecosystem intersects with money laundering, corruption, cybercrime, human trafficking, illicit arms trafficking and other forms of organised crime.

These intersections make sustained cooperation, within the NDLEA and among our partner institutions, not merely desirable, but indispensable”, he stated.

He called for stronger synergy among the Agency’s Directorates: intelligence, investigation, prosecution, forensics, asset and financial investigation, describing them as interconnected links in one enforcement chain that must work as one Agency rather than in isolation. He extended the same call to inter-agency collaboration, noting that no single institution possesses all the information, expertise or capacity required to confront sophisticated criminal networks.

The NDLEA chairman commended the calibre of resource persons at the programme, including Hon. Judge Michael Hopmeier, recently retired Circuit Judge at Southwark Crown Court, UK; Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, SAN, former Chairman of the ICPC; Mr. Rotimi Oyedepo, SAN, Director of Public Prosecutions of the Federation; Calvin Wilson, Global MLCFT advisor; Jason Sandoval, Head of European Operations at Asset Reality, and his colleague, Nick Francis; Fernandez Marcus-Obiene, cryptocurrency expert and Special Assistant to the President on Justice Sector Reform; and Chioma Chikelu, a crypto-police specialist, among other resource persons drawn from sister agencies.
He also welcomed the participation of representatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), and the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), as well as Judges of the Federal High Court, describing their presence as strengthening the link between investigation, prosecution and adjudication.

Marwa reminded participants that asset recovery does not end with seizure or forfeiture, warning that poor management and lack of transparency can diminish the value of recovered assets and undermine public confidence in the recovery process. He urged that accountability and transparency be preserved from the point of seizure through forfeiture, management and eventual realisation of assets.

He charged officers of the Agency to see the programme not as another routine training but as an opportunity to strengthen the NDLEA’s collective capacity, stressing that knowledge gained must not remain within individual Directorates but be shared and translated into coordinated action across the Agency.
He expressed confidence that at the end of the programme, participants would be better equipped to follow the money, identify assets, strengthen evidence, secure forfeiture, preserve recovered value, and ultimately deprive narcotics traffickers and organised criminal networks of the proceeds that fuel their operations.

In his goodwill message delivered by Justice Inyang Ekwo at the programme, the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Hon. Justice John Terhemba Tsoho commended Marwa for the great strides the Agency has been recording under his leadership, while he added that collaboration between the Federal High Court and the NDLEA as well as other law enforcement agencies will put Nigeria in good spotlight in the international community.

According to him, “His Lordship, the Chief Judge, expresses his delights to be part of this programme which is designed to strengthen institutional capacity in financial investigation, asset tracing for future recovery, and management of proceeds and instrumentalities of narcotic trafficking and related crimes, including cybercurrency-enabled money laundering.

“He is of the opinion that this topic shows how extensive and multifaceted drug crimes are and can be, and their ever-expanding frontiers, which ought to be tackled by effective and sophisticated law enforcement.

“His Lordship appreciates and commends you, the Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, for your commendable strides since the assumption of office as the Chairman and Chief Executive. His Lordship believes that collaboration between the Federal High Court and law enforcement agencies, especially the NDLEA, will put this nation on a proper spotlight when it comes to law enforcement in the international circle.”