Senate Plans 3-prong Approach Against Drug Abuse

The Senate has developed a three-prong strategy to combat the menace of narcotics in the nation.It warned traffickers that Nigeria would henceforth not be safe for their illicit business.
Speaking in Benin, Edo State capital, during the public destruction of forfeited 73,463.21 kilogrammes of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances drug exhibits worth N2.8 billion by the Edo State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), the chairman, Senate Committee on Drugs and Narcotics, Senator Joseph Ikpea, said the exercise was not a mere celebration but a stern “statement that Nigeria will not be a transit point, a warehouse, or a dumping ground for illicit drugs and hard ...