The Kogi Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) asserted on Tuesday that drug abuse serves as a primary driver for the insurgencies and kidnappings afflicting society today.
Umar Yahuza, the State Commander of the agency, conveyed this message to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lokoja. He emphasized the agency’s commitment to curtailing the circulation of illicit drugs to prevent their consumption.
Yahuza elaborated that by reducing the availability of illicit drugs, the level of usage and dependency would decline, ultimately leading to a decrease in societal ills such as insurgency, kidnapping, and others.
“All the problems of insurgency and kidnapping are drug-induced because it won’t be possible to carry out kidnapping without the use of illicit drugs.
“But we can stop insurgency, kidnapping, and other vices if we collectively fight against the menace of drug abuse and trafficking in the country,” he said.
According to him, the command had put strategies in place to arrest drug abusers and traffickers as well as seize all illicit drugs being peddled in and through Kogi.
He urged the state government, community and religious leaders, and other stakeholders to join the NDLEA to fight drug abuse and trafficking successfully.
