There Is No Partisanship In Our Promotion – NDLEA

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Wednesday faulted alleged lopsided promotion in the agency.

This is contained in a statement issued by the Director, Media and Advocacy, of the NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi in Abuja.

Babafemi said that elevation of officers and men remains an ongoing exercise based on a number of factors including vacancy.

“The attention of the NDLEA has been drawn to some online reports suggesting lopsided promotion of personnel.

“The agency wishes to state that no such thing exists as elevation of officers and men remains an ongoing exercise based on a number of factors including vacancy.

“Indeed, the issues raised by the category of personnel mentioned in the reports arose in 2011, which was 10 clear years before the current leadership of retired Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa, “he said.

According tom him, however, in a determined bid to motivate the workforce, over 70 per cent of the workforce, a number of who had been stagnated on one rank for 15 to 20 years, were promoted and their ranks harmonised in 2021 soon after Marwa assumed leadership of the Agency.

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“Even though more than half of the category of personnel referred to in the reports had been promoted in the recent promotion exercises

“The ongoing expansion of the agency which creates more vacancies for officers and men to move up, no doubt provides the window for the few not yet affected to be elevated in another exercise underway for the junior ranks.

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“Anyone not yet affected can rest assured that the NDLEA Chairman considers their welfare paramount and central to the successes so far achieved by his Leadership, “he said.

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