Senate Wednesday raised the alarm
that the recently banned codeine syrups and other related drugs have now found
their ways into the Sambisa forest inhabited by the dreaded Boko Haram
insurgents.
It said not only the insurgents
and soldiers were allegedly involved in drug addiction but residents of the
terrorised communities in northern part of the country.
The hallowed chamber, has consequently
mandated its committee on drugs, narcotics and health to swing into action of
investigation and report back for further legislative action.
This development followed order
43 moved by the senate leader, Ahmed Lawan representing Yobe north senatorial
district.
In his explanation, the Senate
Leader said, “This drug abuse is what is killing us. More than 70 percent of
codeine syrups and other narcotics find their way to Sambisa forest, and
probably in the hands of the insurgents or the soldiers”.
He said the federal government
recently banned the production and importation of codeine syrups, but
maintained that there is so much abuse of the drugs today.
It would be recalled that Senate
had in October last year sequel to a motion against massive abuse of drugs in
Jigawa, Kano found out that over three million quantities of the banned syrups
was consumed on a daily basis. It sent a delegation to Kano to seek ways of its
amelioration.
It is said that this abusive
consumption of the syrups and other related drugs are part of the fallout of
the Boko Haram menace.
Further investigations also
indicated that not only the soldiers and insurgents are in the habit of the
excessive consumption but young girls, boys and women of the affected northern
communities are also involved.
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