AYV News, March 20, 2024

Executive Director of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Andrew Jaiah Kaikai has confessed that the Agency does not have even a bicycle to do its work, it has only twelve permanent staff and cannot afford to pay for its electricity.

He said: “Even electricity, Thursday before I left the office out of my pocket I paid one million old leones just for us to have light in that office.”

Kaikai who was speaking at a meeting with Members of Parliament on plans to address the drug abuse especially Kush in the country said he needs the requisite support to be able to do his work.

A senior journalist posted on his social media news handle saying: “Now, we’ve been saying the 32 youths who were buried last week are victims, and those who are being shaved around are victims too of a failed system, a system that doesn’t care to even fund an agency that is so important in the fight against drug abuse.

“This is a fact, from the words of an appointee of His Excellency Julius Maada Bio, the NDLEA doesn’t even have a bicycle and can’t pay for its electricity. Kaikai who is still under investigation for an alleged unexplained wealth for a G-Wagon and other vehicles he said he received as gifts when he was the country’s Chief Immigration Officer sounded like he’d been abandoned and thrown somewhere very irrelevant.

“From an office where he was receiving gifts to where he had to pay for electricity. The government has a bigger responsibility to address what they’ve neglected that has now become a threat to our society”.