Drug Abuse: This is a National Problem, Says Saraki

Senate President Bukola Saraki Tuesday commended the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Africa Service for its ‘Africa Eye’ documentary on ‘Sweet Sweet Codeine’ that details the widespread prevalence of drug and substance abuse in Nigeria, saying: “This is everybody’s problem.”

In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Sanni Onogu, Saraki said documentaries like ‘Sweet Sweet Codeine’ are real-life attestations on the need for Nigeria to take its drug abuse problem more seriously.

“The widespread nature of this substance abuse problem in Nigeria is why the Senate convened the stakeholder Roundtable in Kano in December. Even though I have been working on this issue for a few months now, watching the BBC documentary was another eye-opener. Nigerians can now see that if care is not taken, we could be sitting on a catastrophe. We cannot all just fold our arms and expect this issue to fix itself. This is everybody's problem.

  “As things stand, following the Roundtable on Drug Abuse that held in Kano in December 2017, we have already developed a draft Legislative framework for the control of narcotics and psychotropic substances and the provision of..." Read the story here: https://lnkd.in/e5jNtBR