19 Mar Marwa: N60bn Hard Drugs Seized By NDLEA in Two Months
The Chairman of the National Drug Laws Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brigadier General Buba Marwa (rtd), has said that illicit drugs worth over N60 billion have been seized by the agency in the last two months.
He spoke at colloquium tagged: “Walk Away from Drugs,” which was organised by the Ekiti State Ministry of Justice in Ado-Ekiti.
The NDLEA said: “Insurgence, kidnapping and banditry are peculiar to some certain parts of the country, but drug abuse is universal. It has no boundary and no respect for ethnicity or religion.
“The menace is worrisome. Within the last two months, more than N60 billion worth of illicit drugs have been seized and perpetrators arrested and prosecuted.
“If access to drugs is prevented, criminality can be reduced by 50 per cent in the country.”
He called for concerted campaign against the use of illicit drugs among the citizenry, suggesting that parents should henceforth include drug certificate as parts of the criteria to give their daughters and sons hands in marriage.
The Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, in his address at the meeting, restated the commitment of his administration at reducing drug abuse in the state.
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