Entertainers Encourage Drug Abuse Through Their Work And Activities On Social Media – NDLEA Boss, Marwa

The Chairman/Chief Government of the Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), has mentioned that entertainers promote drug abuse by way of their actions on social media, which influences the Nigerian youths.

Marwa mentioned this when he acquired leaders of Nollywood business underneath the aegis of Actors Guild of Nigeria, on the Nationwide Headquarters of the NDLEA in Abuja, on Monday.

NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, mentioned the AGN leaders declared assist for the Company’s ongoing conflict towards drug abuse in Nigeria at the same time as they expressed their preparedness to hitch the campaign towards the scourge.

He mentioned Marwa expressed confidence that the marketing campaign towards drug abuse within the nation will go far with the supply of partnership and assist from the management of AGN.

Marwa was quoted as saying, “Numerous artists don’t solely use, in addition they encourage others to abuse medicine by way of their work and actions on social media. We wish the Guild to set good instance by main the conflict inside its circle. Your motion pictures should promote messages towards the usage of illicit medicine as a result of the minds of tens of millions are formed by what they watch in motion pictures. We want you to arrange Warfare Towards Drug Abuse, WADA, committees inside your business.”

Talking earlier, Nationwide President of AGN, Emeka Rollas Ejezie, mentioned, “We’re right here right this moment to affirm our full assist to your efforts in combating the menace of medication in our society as we strongly imagine will assist scale back drug crime to the barest minimal.

“As a Guild of main influencers and according to our set aims to coach, inform and entertain in addition to our avowed dedication to nationwide growth, we search a mutually useful partnership with the NDLEA to leverage on the star-power of our members in selling a few of your transformation applications particularly on drug trafficking and abuses.

“The Majority of our members are youths and enchantment to a era of youths who’re influenced closely by web content material and social media.

“Now we have, due to this fact, outlined some advocacy applications to enlighten Nigerian youths on the hazards of drug abuse and trafficking; they embody however not restricted to: manufacturing of skits majorly for social media campaigns; drama collection on damaging results of drug abuses, rehabilitations, eradicating the concern of stigmatisation and benefits of complete abstinence; have interaction a few of our A-list actors as NDLEA Ambassadors to assist use their star energy to discourage the youths from doing medicine, amongst others.

“We share within the dream of a greater Nigeria the place success would be the reward for exhausting work and never by way of drug trafficking and different drug-related offences.

“The period of glorifying drug barons and criminals is much gone and the Actors Guild of Nigeria, as Ambassadors of Nigeria’s picture, is available for advocacy campaigns, talk-shops, manufacturing of skits, playlets, function movies and so on, on the menace of drug abuse and trafficking,” he acknowledged.

Aside from the Nationwide President, Emeka Rollas Ejezie, different members of the delegation embody Mohammed Kareem, Vice President North Central; veteran actor, Zulu Adigwe; Steve Eboh; Onwurah Agility Ifeanyi; Waash Waziri, Vice President North West; Nazareth Jesse Bako, Mayor AGN Abuja; Pamela Abah; Veteran actor, Lisa Onu and Hajiya Salma Ibrahim, Chairman AGN Kaduna.