Photo News: Released Saudi-Detained Pilgrims Visit NDLEA Boss Marwa to Appreciate Intervention

L–R: Alhaja Abdullahi Bahijja Aminu; Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd); Alhaji Baffa Abdullahi; and Alhaja Maryam Hussain Abdullahi, when Abdullahi led two of the three Nigerian pilgrims who were detained in the Saudi Arabia over illicit drugs smuggled into their luggage by a syndicate, but were later released by Saudi authorities following multi-stakeholder efforts coordinated by the NDLEA, to thank Marwa for the life-saving intervention at the agency’s National Headquarters in Abuja on Thursday, April 9, 2026.