The Chairman/ Chief Executive, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA,Brig-Gen Muhammadu Buba Marwa,has inaugurated a 31- man commitee Special Purpose Commitee to support the agency in the fight against drug menace in Nigeriia.
Speaking on Thursday in Abuja,Marwa said that the commitee comprised members of academic,civil society practitioners in drug rehabilitation, medical professionals, youth,women groups representative,media, public advocacy groups and religious bodies.
The NDLEA Chief said the commitee will serve as the Agency’s internal advisory patner and Think Tank.adding that the use of drugs in Nigeria had reached an epidemic proportion of about 15 million approximately,nearly three times global prevalence.
He said “unless we get to the root cause,we will only be scratching the surface as the criminalities will continue to flourish.”
“It is for this reason that President Buhari inaugurated the Presidential Committee on Elimination of Drug Abuse (PACEDA) in 2018, with the mandate to bring to him recommendations on how best to tackle and eliminate the drug scourge within the shortest possible time.”
According to him,no President before him had shown so much passion in the drug scourge menace.
Also speaking, the Chairman of the Committee,Otumba Lanre Ipinmisho, said the coming of the committee
would help the NDLEA to sanitize the Nigeriian society of illicit drugs.
