Number Of Nigerians In Thailand Prison For Drug Dealing Drops By 75% – NDLEA.

While citing the Charge d’affaires/Deputy Head of Mission of the Royal Thai Embassy in Nigeria, Kriwat Pharmorabuta, an assertion by the Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, in Abuja on Wednesday, said that the quantity of Nigerians right now in Thailand’s prison has dropped to 200 from 800 kept over the most recent three years, addressing a drop by 75%.

Pharmorabuta who expressed this during a politeness visit to the Chairman/CEO of NDLEA, Brig Gen Mohamed Marwa (Retd), praised the NDLEA, for mounting an enthusiastic battle against substance misuse and illegal medication dealing with Nigeria, an improvement that he said, had affected decidedly on the picture of the country in the global local area.

While commending the moving authority Marwa has given the NDLEA over the most recent three years, the Thai emissary said “I have uplifting news that I got presently, on the grounds that previously, there were around 800 detainees from Nigeria in Thai penitentiaries, however at the present time the number has diminished extraordinarily, it is under 200. That implies it’s extremely challenging now for them to get out with the medications. Thus, I compliment you and the Nigerian public. I feel satisfied on the grounds that I’m a representative in Nigeria, so I don’t simply cherish my country, I likewise love Nigeria since Nigeria is my subsequent home. Thus, when I get uplifting news like this, I feel exceptionally cheerful.”

Talking on the continuous joint effort between the Thai consulate and NDLEA on visa freedom, Pharmorabuta said his administration looks to reinforce the organization since the international safe haven depends more on NDLEA visa leeway to give Thai visas to any Nigerian making a trip to Thailand from anyplace on the planet due to the careful task generally finished by the Agency on the significant travel report.

As per him, “I would like to thank Your Excellency and to inform you that the government of Thailand gives more importance to the certificate of NDLEA of Nigeria before issuing visas. There may be some other criteria, and some other qualifications that they might need but I think it’s not the priority, the priority document that the government of Thailand needs is the certificate from NDLEA. So, it means that if a Nigerian has the NDLEA Certificate, the correct one in their hands, 90- 95% assurance is guaranteed that they can receive the visas to enter into the kingdom of Thailand. So, I would like to thank you very much and to inform you that I’m very pleased that our team, my delegation and your delegation can know each other so that we can coordinate well in subsequent works.”

While expressing that he was answerable for reciprocal relations among Nigeria and Thailand, the agent guaranteed that he would make progress toward reinforcing the organization among NDLEA and its partners in Thailand, as well as help the Agency with regards to preparing and grant for its faculty.

In his reaction, Marwa communicated enchant at the continuous organization among NDLEA and the Thai embassy on visa clearance certificates. He demonstrated a strong fascination with the status of the Thai government to help the Agency with preparing and grants for its faculty.

“In the area of training that you just indicated your readiness to support us, you are very welcome and we are going to write this week indicating interest in the training and the scholarships. We have a lot to learn from Thailand, In fact, I just created a unit, the Alternative Development Unit in my office, which focuses on encouraging our drug traffickers, especially the cannabis growers, because we have so much going on here, over 10 million consuming it and we’ve seized such a huge number, over 7000 tonnes of cannabis, we’re looking at encouraging them to stop cannabis and do other things like rice, sugarcane, cocoa and the country that we can turn to for help is Thailand, because you have the experience in alternative development, so that the people will drop this bad habit and do something more legitimate for themselves”, the NDLEA boss expressed.