FG urged to take war against drug abuse to campuses

A former Chairman of Federal Character Commission, Professor Shuaibu has advised the Federal Government to establish an outpost of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in higher institutions across the country.

He noted that this will stem the rising waves of drug abuse among the nation’s youth population.

AbdulRaheem, the Talba of Ilorin and former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin gave this advice while speaking with newsmen in Ilorin recently on the adverse effects of the prevalent drug abuse among Nigerian youth.

He noted that the fight against drug abuse in higher institutions of learning should not be left to the school management alone but must be fully complemented by the active support of the government.

According to him, “I think it is time, not to leave the security, the monitoring of miscreants in the University to the management alone. I would have dared to challenge the government to establish a duty post for NDLEA in every institution so that they monitor and nip in the bud any suspected behaviour, which is likely to snowball into the kind of things we are hearing today.”