Since Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa (retd) became the chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, so much work and bursting of drug dealers hide-out has been going on by the agency.
On Wednesday, the chairman of the NDLEA, Buba Marwa paid a courtesy visit to the governor of Lagos, where he recommended that politicians and students should be subjected to drug tests in Nigeria.
He said; “Running for public offices is a big responsibility. You shouldn’t be in this important assignment for the public, and your head is filled up because of drugs,” “The drug scourge is now an epidemic in Nigeria.
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The prevalence is 15 percent, three times the global average. One in seven Nigerians takes drugs. We have found out that there is a nexus between drug use and crime. “We felt that Lagos can show the way first with an integrity drug test for students because it is our youths that are affected mostly; students, especially those in tertiary institutions, should do drug tests.”