NDLEA to Chair African Regional Counter-narcotic Meeting

NDLEA Boss to Chair African Regional Counter-narcotic Meeting

Col. Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah (retd.)

The Chairman/Chief Executive, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Col. Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah (Rtd.) has chaired the first annual Africa Targeting Working Group meeting of International Drug Enforcement Conference (IDEC).

The meeting, which holds at the Capital Menlyn Main Hotel in Pretoria, South Africa from January 23 to 24, 2018, elaborated on drug trafficking in the region.

The invitation to chair the event was at the instance of United States’ Drug Enforcement Administration (USDEA), which is the key facilitator of IDEC.

According to Andre W. Kellum who conveyed the invitation, “We here at DEA are sincerely appreciative of your support and efforts in the battle against drug crimes.”

The purpose of the Africa Targeting Working Group meeting was to discuss the Drug Trafficking Organisations operating throughout Africa with drug trafficking networks cutting across borders. The meeting was also to prepare the African region for the forthcoming IDEC meeting in Rotterdam, Netherlands in April 2018.

Abdallah described the invitation as a product of Nigeria’s leading role in ensuring that the entire Africa region is on the same page in combating the illicit drug trafficking challenge.

The Chairman further said: “This alarming trend in the emergence of new psychoactive substances both synthetic and plant based has further reinforced the need for regional and multi-lateral cooperation against Drug Trafficking Organisations”.
He stressed that the meeting coming up very early in the year was a warning sign to the drug trafficking organisations that this year 2018 would be full of troubles for their organisations and networks”.

The Agency under the leadership of Abdallah has continued to enjoy robust training and logistic support and exchange of intelligence from the international partners.

WONDERS IN RIVERS STATE . ...Augustine Otuokwa Ogar, 32 years University graduate made history by constructing a Hydroelectric Plant that generate electricity. .

UNIVERSITY GRADUATE CONSTRUCT HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER PLANT, GENERATE ELECTRICITY

32 years old Augustine Otuokwa Ogar, a graduate of Electronic and Computer Technology, has constructed a 200 Mega Watts mini Hydroelectric power plant that generate electricity for the plant site and its surrounding Mgbaeshuo village of Wula Community, Eastern Boki, Boki LGA, Cross River State.

Remarkable and exceptional Augustine Otuokwa Ogar, constructed this Hydroelectric Plant with locally selected handpicked materials and equipments and intelligently put them together.

He converts the kinetic energy of a flowing stream water into electric energy that is now used in homes and business areas of this village.

Generated on a small scale with 'run-off' installation of a naturally flowing stream water to turn and revolve its turbine.
The Water rushes past the turbine, hitting its blades and causing it to spin and rotate, converting the water's kinetic energy into mechanical energy, the water then finally flows out of the stream and continues its journey down stream.

"When the turbine spins so does the electromagnetic field convert this mechanical energy into electric energy" he said and continue, "the flow rate of the stream water is low, because its not a dam or water fall, this is a small stream with low flowing water, Yet I was able to convert it to bring Pressure and fall like a Dam."

Augustine Otuokwa Ogar, needs encouragement, support, total empowerment from Government and spirited Nigerians.

If he can generate power from his locally constructed Hydroelectric power plant then, with Empowerment, he can construct a more Ingenious energy generating plant that can serve the entire Local Government and Senatorial Zone.