Islamic human rights group, the Muslim Rights Concern
(MURIC) has warned against the move by the Nigerian legislature to legalise
cannabis in Nigeria.
According to the group, the legalization of cannabis will be
the last nail in the coffin of morality in Nigeria.
Recall that Benjamin Kalu, a spokesman of the House of
Representatives, had on Monday in Akure, Ondo State, said that cannabis would
aid Nigeria’s industrial drive and boost her internally generated revenue
(IGR).
But MURIC, reacting to this in a statement signed by its
director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, said it strongly condemned the attempt to
compartmentalise Nigerians into vicious drug cartels.
The group accused Kalu of trying to turn Nigeria into
another Mexico on the African continent, adding that the country already has
serious security challenges which could be compounded by the legalisation of
cannabis.
“The security challenges we are currently facing are
punishments for our recklessness. Instead of thinking of making criminal
elements in the country ‘turn back from their evil’, Kalu wants to cap the
edifice with drug war,” the group said.
“There is no gainsaying the fact that the legalisation of
cannabis will be the last straw that broke the camel’s back in terms of its
impact on insecurity and the last nail in the coffin of morality in Nigeria in
terms of the country’s descent into the abyss of moral debauchery which began a
long time ago,” it said.
MURIC further made a connection between Kalu’s statement and
an earlier position of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu on the matter.
“This lawmaker spoke in Akure, the capital of Ondo State.
Nigerians will recall that Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has been
advocating for the legalisation of cannabis since 2019,” MURIC said, adding
that “There is no doubt that he has not given up. Kalu is his latest recruit
into his cannabis promotion camp.
“The Akeredolu school of thought is only thinking of the
material aspect and economic gains obtainable from the legalisation of cannabis
sativa (also known as Indian hemp).
“Have they put in place the necessary precautions? Do
Nigerians obey laws? Do they listen to simple instructions?”, MURIC added.
The group further attributed major road accidents to the use
of cannabis by commercial drivers.
MURIC also believes that those who burned hundreds of
luxurious buses of the Lagos State Government during the #EndSARS protests were
under the influence of drugs.
“Nigeria is passing through unimaginable social trauma at
this period. The crime rate is very high and it is mostly induced by drug.
The major point raised by Kalu and Akeredolu keredolu has
been economic benefit but what have the politicians done with all the billions
of dollars from oil all these years?
“Cannabis may have its benefits but the disadvantages outway
the advantages,” MURIC said while call on the federal lawmakers to reject any
attempt to smuggle the cannabis bill into the hallowed House.
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