The Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig. General Mohamed Buba Marwa (RTD), has appointed Commander Mitchell Ofoyeju, former spokesperson for the Agency as Commander Tincan Island Port Strategic Command, Lagos.
Commander Mitchell is a seasoned and astute officer with wealth of experience in media relations, drug law enforcement, and drug demand reduction. He has served in numerous committees, including the special purpose committee and the planning and organising committee for the thirty-first meeting of Heads of Drug Law Enforcement Agencies in Africa (HONLAF), hosted by Nigeria in Abuja 2023.
Prior to his appointment, he was the Agency’s reform champion with the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) and focal person on the implementation of the presidential priorities and ministerial deliverables of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led government. Some key positions held by him include principal staff officer, chairman, chief executive officer’s office, assistant director of planning, directorate of planning, research, and statistics at the national headquarters of the Anti-Narcotics Agency.
The mass communication graduate also holds a master’s degree in marketing. He is a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) master trainer on Drug Prevention, Treatment, and Care (DPTC) as well as a master trainer on Right-Based Border Management facilitated by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). He is the author of The Last Syndicate and A Dance Against Taboo, among many others.
He has undertaken numerous specialised security trainings on investigation techniques, cross-border trafficking, anti-corruption, human rights protection, as well as transparency and good governance, among others. He is poised to combat drug trafficking at one of the busiest ports in Nigeria. Mitchell takes over from Commander Aminu Abubakar.