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March 29, 2019
TheChairman, Presidential Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Drug Abuse BubaMarwa has put the nation’s figure of drug addicts at about 15 million.
Marwa,who announced the figure upon visitation of the committee to Katsina State tomeet with critical stakeholders, described the situation as alarming and anemergency which needs to be urgently checkmated.
Accordingto the chairman, the global average rating of drug use is at five per cent, butin Nigeria, it is 15 per cent.
Marwasaid it was toward addressing the problem that prompted the Federal Governmentto raise the committee to proffer recommendations and steps to be taken toresolve the issue of drug abuse in the country.He emphasised theneed for government to strengthen security agencies in order to cut the supplychain of the abused drugs in the country.