Drug & Substance AbuseNewsAdamawa State Rates Third With Drug Abuse In Northeast

YOLA — Adamawa State has been rated as third in abusing drugs in Northeast Nigeria with 370,000 drug abuse in the state.

This was the outcome of the brainstorming session of the drugs abuse control committee tagged “War Against Drugs Abuse” held at the office of the Deputy Governor’s office Tuesday.

Declaring the meeting, Deputy Governor Chief Crowther Seth who is the state chairman of the committee represented by the state commander NDLEA, described drug abuse as a killer of destiny, reiterating the need for youths to desist from drugs among their substance abuse.

“Drugs end all dreams; people should rise against the scourge of drug abuse with the view of reducing it to the barest minimum.

“The forum is an avenue to deliberate on the drug law control master plan and the use of drugs among other substances in Adamawa, and proper enlightenment of the general public for desired results.

“Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri’s primary aim of setting the committee is to collaborate with relevant agencies to ensure drug abuse reduction in the state and to end the menace for a greater, peaceful, and prosperous Adamawa,” he said.

He thanked Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri for his assistance and favourable disposition to the committee and encouraged members of the committee to participate actively in the success of the great task before them.

The meeting featured a presentation of papers by the Deputy Zonal commander NDLEA Zone B Yola, Oluwi Friday among others on drug supply reduction, cultivation, production, drug Trafficking and use as well as illicit drug abuse situation in Adamawa State.

Recall that the drug control committee was inaugurated in the state by Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri through his deputy Chief Crowther Seth on 24^th June, 2022 with the mandate of drawing a road map towards the reduction of illicit drug production and intake for a safer and peaceful society.

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Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.

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