The Commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Kwara State Command, North Central Nigeria, Muhammad Bashir Ibrahim has revealed that the Agency is now becoming a member of forces with Nigerian universities so as to intensify the battle in opposition to abuse of medicine and illicit substances.
The Commander disclosed this whereas answering questions from newsmen in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.
Ibrahim famous that the State Command has taken their advocacy to a number of larger establishments particularly these in Ilorin, saying, “We are going to partner with the schools in order to formulate policies that would help to curb the prevalence of drug abuse on their campuses.”
According to him, the colleges are but to formulate any coverage in opposition to drug abuse
“As at the moment, none of them have it and we want them to have it, we should have a Drug Use Policy in schools, especially in higher institutions.”
The Commander recommended that the colleges want to set up a seminar that brings all of the stakeholders within the establishments onboard which embrace the scholars management, each non-academic and tutorial workers.
“They can do that by bringing all the actors in the school environment together, both students through their leaders, the Academic staff and the non-academic staff, probably with a day or two days seminar and by the time they are coming out of that seminar, they would be able to come out with policy within the school.”
Transborder Drug Trade
He additionally revealed that the physique is doing its greatest to checkmate the transborder drug commerce into Nigeria via fixed patrol of the Nigerian border, assuring that they’re now getting optimistic outcomes.
“Most of the arrests that we have been making have been on the road, vehicles we intercepted when they are trying to bring in illicit drugs into Kwara State and we were able to track down the receivers of those drugs in the State.”
Ibrahim additionally spoke on the efforts of the Agency to efficiently rehabilitate drug customers, noting that the customers are actually being enrolled in ability acquisition programmes corresponding to shoe making, bag making, cleaning soap and detergent making so as to make them productive members of the group.
He, due to this fact, appealed to the state authorities and stakeholders to be part of fingers with the company in finishing its ongoing rehabilitation centre in order that drug customers could be stored there for correct rehabilitation, counselling and reformation.
The Commander additionally enjoined mother and father to monitor the motion of their youngsters and wards.
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