NDLEA Debunks Sale Of Ikoyi’s Office

Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed reports,

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has refuted a bogus claim that a former Chairman of the Agency sold off its headquarters office buildings in Ikoyi, Lagos.

A reliable source from the NDLEA told this Track News Nigeria that the claim going viral on WhatsApp by an anonymous writer that its officers are pure lies.

An official statement from the NDLEA reads in part: “A Presidential Implementation Committee (PIC) on Federal Government Landed Properties took over the buildings following a government directive that all vacated or under-utilised government properties be taken over by the PIC, sold and proceeds paid to federal government coffers”.

Director of Media and Advocacy of the Agency added: “At the time of relocation, 70% of the Agency’s headquarters staff moved to Abuja while the remaining 30% are still in Shaw road office, Ikoyi.

“This remaining 30% will soon join the main headquarters in Abuja as soon as the new HQ building, recently bought by the federal government for the Agency is ready for occupation.

“Like other federal government agencies whose properties were taken over by the PIC, NDLEA has no hand in the sale of the mentioned properties and does not know who bought them and for how much, as the presidential committee solely handled the sale”.

“The challenge before the Agency at the moment is how to remove our officers and men who live within communities where they are exposed to dangers into secure barracks accommodation, a concern already being addressed by the federal government through budgetary provisions for the construction of such barracks across the country beginning from this year.

“Members of the public are therefore urged to disregard the anonymous write up, which is nothing but an embodiment of distortion and mischief.”