The newly appointed Chairman/Chief Executive of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brigadier General Buba Marwa retired has commenced the re-engineering of the agency for optimal performance.
This followed the inauguration of a seven-member harmonisation committee to address all forms of distortions hampering the smooth running of the agency.
Marwa, while inaugurating the Committee said the step is in keeping with the federal government Circulars and the present reality in the agency that we cannot meet our objectives without raising the morale of the personnel.
According to him, one of my early findings is that the morale of the officers and men has dropped to the lowest ebb, I have noticed distortions in the seniority roll of the Agency. This has made the personnel to become poorly motivated.
He said they need a highly motivated personnel to win this war which we must win by the grace of God.”
While maintaining further that the first thing is to resolve the issue of low morale, he added: “We need to develop a proper, accurate and credible seniority roll for the personnel. We have officers in the various commands whose promotion has been delayed for no just cause whereas the vacancies are there.
He informed that the Committee had five terms of reference which include receiving memoranda from aggrieved staff members and analysing them in line with set criteria taking into account service progression and vacancies, successes in the prescribed promotion examinations and disciplinary issues and to make appropriate recommendations that would address the agitation for harmonisation.
Others he said are: “to critically examine posting stagnation and address the issues of restoration of correct ranks and seniority to those who are wrongfully denied, restore correct seniority roll and develop guidelines for career path and as well as examine structural expansion of the Agency.”
“The Committee is headed by Colonel Yakubu Bako (Rtd), Special Adviser to the Chairman/Chief Executive, and has six weeks to submit its report”, Marwa said.
The Committee has five terms of reference which include receiving memoranda from aggrieved staff members and analyzing them in line with set criteria taking into account service progression and vacancies, successes in the prescribed promotion examinations and disciplinary issues and to make appropriate recommendations that would address the agitation for harmonization.
Others are: to critically examine posting stagnation and address the issues of restoration of correct ranks and seniority to those who are wrongfully denied, restore correct seniority roll and develop guidelines for career path and as well as examine structural expansion of the Agency.