THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Wednesday gave out N163.4m as burial expenses to the families of 188 officers who died in active service since 2014.

The agency also joined the widows and widowers of the deceased officers to commend and pray for the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for granting intervention fund to pay the burial entitlements of the deceased personnel.

Amounts paid each of the beneficiaries include N875,000 and N885,000.

The Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA, Brig-Gen. Mohammed Marwa (retd), while formally issuing the cheques to 14 of the beneficiaries, said, “The various amounts will be credited into the account of the beneficiaries.”

He recalled how Buhari had stepped in to provide bailout funds for states twice to be able to pay workers’ salaries, among other pro-masses interventions by his regime.