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NDLEA Boss Buba Marwa Warns Against Legalizing Cannabis

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The Chairman/Chief Govt of the Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company, NDLEA, Brig. Normal Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has warned that present strikes by some stakeholders to push for the legalisation of hashish in Nigeria will rob the nation of the good points thus far made within the renewed battle in opposition to drug abuse and trafficking within the nation.

 

Recall that the spokesperson of the Home of Representatives, Benjamin Okezie Kalu, earlier this month introduced the decrease chamber of the National Assembly is about to legalize the usage of Indian Hemp in Nigeria for financial profit. Learn right here.

 

Marwa objected to this when he spoke in Abuja at present Wednesday, Could 26, at a nationwide security summit organized by the House of Representatives. He stated the current determine of 10.6million Nigerians abusing hashish is scary and sufficient to sound the alarm bell. He stated the sturdy connection between drug abuse and the safety challenges throughout the nation is incontrovertible.

 

“Presently, there is no such thing as a greater nationwide challenge than the difficulty of insecurity in Nigeria. It is among the huge challenges, if not the largest, threatening our pricey nation. Insecurity is at present, a full-blown illness with many manifestations resembling insurgency, banditry, kidnapping, homicide, theft, reprisal killing, identify it.

But there has by no means been a authorities that’s extra dedicated to ending this spate of insecurity than the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. The President has matched political willpower with sources, however the scope and frequency of those acts of destabilisation and the audacity displayed by the perpetrators name for a second, crucial take a look at the malaise. The persistence of the issue has pressured on us the need to begin to take a look at possible extraneous elements that could be sustaining the resistance from the prison parts and in doing so, attempt to join the dots. The permutations will result in a listing of possible causes, which is not going to exclude the use and abuse of illicit substances. Within the remaining evaluation, drug abuse is certainly one of many elements fueling insecurity.

“The connection between substance abuse and crime is a reality. What is evident is that no sane human being will rise in opposition to society to commit the sort of gross atrocities as we’re witnessing in recent times, besides such a person has first hardened his coronary heart with mind-altering substances. Using medicine for perverted functions will not be a brand new phenomenon, neither is it one thing that simply began in Nigeria. There are precedents in world historical past.

So past speculations and armchair theories, there may be ample proof, from report statistics and from empirical information from the sphere, to conclude that the usage of illicit substances is a contributing issue to the worsening safety scenario in Nigeria. And if that is so, Nigeria needs to be the final nation to think about a legislation to legalise marijuana in any form or kind.

“Ought to we have now such a legislation, we are going to quickly turn out to be a nation of junkies and criminals. As such, I’ll prefer to warning that our lawmakers mustn’t legalise hashish as a result of it’ll quantity to taking a step ahead and ten steps backward. It’ll little doubt rob the nation of latest good points within the battle in opposition to illicit medicine. In lower than 4 months, we have now been capable of mop up over two million kilograms of illicit medicine, with over N90billion price of illicit substances seized. Think about if a fraction of this had discovered its method into our streets. We can’t be holding a national security summit and on the similar time contemplating legalising illicit substances.”

He counseled the organizers of the summit, saying it couldn’t have come at a greater time. He urged Nigerians to face up and take possession of the battle in opposition to insecurity within the nation.