The Chairman of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), General Buba Marwa (rtd), said that the anti-drug agency seized about two million kilogrammes of hard drugs worth over N100 billion in the last eight months.
Marwa, who disclosed this in Yola, Adamawa State, when he paid a condolence visit to the family of late Alhaji Ahmed Joda, said that the best way to curb drug abuse in the country was to inculcate good family values in Nigerian children.
According to him, the security challenges Nigeria is facing today is largely the result of the influence of drugs on the most productive component of the society thus demanding serious concerns among critical stakeholders.
The anti-drug crusader said: “Poverty has remained the major cause why our youths get involved in drug peddling and trafficking, and presently, a kilo of these hard drugs worth about $400 in the street.”
Marwa, therefore, urged Nigerians, especially the youths, to shun the use of hard drugs while also charging parents to always remain abreast of what their children and wards do in their daily endeavours in order to deal with drug abuse syndrome among the youths.
Specifically, the NDLEA chairman said the best way to curb the increasing rate of hard drugs-induced violence in the society if for parents to properly give the right orientation to the youths, adding that good family values must be inculcated in them at the family level.
While thanking the government for supporting the agency, Marwa said such support had helped in boosting the morale of the officers and men, attributing the seizures of over N100 billion worth of drugs in the last eight months to the support.
